Re: can't use 2.4 on my 486 server

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 11:35, Jacek Popławski wrote:
> I use 2.4 kernel for a long time on my workstations, but can't use it on old
> 486 server with 16MB RAM. 2.2 works there without problems (for a long time).
> But few hours after running 2.4.19 server is unreachable. When I connect
> monitor/keyboard and start it again I see fsck starting then:

Two things to check first:  The memory (we've seen 2.4 find bad ram bugs
2.2 did not) and also that its getting the memory size right. 2.4 uses
E820 then E801 memory sizing, older 2.2 (< 2.2.18 or so) didnt do this.
So far I only know of one box that gets memory size wrong just with
E820.

Finally what is plugged into it ?