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Subject: Re: PCI oddities on Dell Inspiron 5000e w/ 2.4.x 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:55:07 CST.
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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:36:39 -0700
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In your message of: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:55:07 CST, you write:
>
>Careful, you're overwriting ACPI data now (and using it as normal RAM).

Hmm, I guess that would be bad.

>Can you try one of a) LILO b) a fixed version of grub c) this patch ?

I tried LILO and the problem did indeed go away when using that.  I
guess I'll stick with LILO until Linux or grub (whichever is broken)
is fixed.  There is just something appealing about a proper boot
console on a PC...

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000800 @ 000000000009f800 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000019800 @ 00000000000e6800 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000013ef0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000000fc00 @ 0000000013ff0000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 0000000013fffc00 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000080000 @ 00000000fff80000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 81904
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 77808 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301
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