Odd Behavior

[Steven Williams]

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Last summer I added some more RAM to my computer to find that Linux
would no longer boot. Oddly Windows Vista still worked fine. I tried
playing with kernel parameters and acpi=off, acpi=rsdt and mem=4G would
make it bootable (but mem=4G would only give me 3G of RAM to use). I
then noticed that 32 bit Linux wasn't affected, but I would still like
to use 64 bit Linux and continue. My problem is that when I would boot
those extra parameters it would just reset itself. Lately I have set
panic=0, but even then it still reboots. My first question is what is
making it reboot?

After I installed Sabayon yesterday and was trying to get it to boot, I
noticed that after I loaded its themed Grub 2 over Fedora's console Grub
2 I could back out of it and boot Fedora just fine without any of the
extra flags. Today I installed the starfield theme and configured it in
Fedora's Grub which strangely makes it bootable. I would like to track
down the issue and file a bug report to get it fixed, but I am afraid I
have insufficient data and I need to prevent the computer from rebooting
to see the last error messages. It seems like there are uninitialized
values that are crashing it, but I have very little to go on. I have
tried using USB to serial to get a serial console logging the output,
but it doesn't get any messages even though after boot I can send plain
text through the cable no problem. Netconsole has also not worked, and
no log files are written before it crashes. Any ideas for getting more
information to get this fixed are appreciated.


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Steven Williams
Student at Ouachita Hills College
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