Re: pcmcia with high mem support

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:28:02AM -0800, Jingmin (Jimmy) Zhou wrote:

> Here's part of the dump message of dmesg under 2GB Memory:
> -------------------- cut below -----------------------------
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ffe2800 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000007ffe2800 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> user-defined physical RAM map:
>  user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>  user: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  user: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ffe2800 (usable)

The problem here is the user-specified memory map is bogus.  Note that
this is user-specified.  Or possibly due to a screwed up boot loader.
You are probably using grub?

-- Dave


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