[PLUG] The bullet has been bitten

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> writes:
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> Russell> I almost uniformily build my own kernels from vanilla
> Russell> kernel.org source for my Debian installs and they always work
> Russell> for me.  I avoid the initrd stuff, so I am actually a bit
> Russell> ignorant about getting those working.
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> Paul> /usr/sbin/update-initramfs ... it's your friend! :-)
>
> Excellent.  Thanks!
>
> /me makes mental note in wet sand at low tide.
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Well ... it's been a week of hacking, but I finally have the thing 
stabilized. Apparently Windows will run on this motherboard with only a 
single 1 GB DIMM, but Linux won't. The motherboard manual doesn't say 
you need to pair them, but apparently you do. Either that or 1 GB wasn't 
enough and the kernel was getting into trouble when asked to manage 
memory. I think it's a little of both, but for now it's solidly running 
compiles and kernel builds without crashing. Once I get Gentoo all 
recompiled I'll run some RAM stress tests and see if I can find 
something in the kernel I can reproduce.

Onward and upward to bigger and better things -- Debian "sid" has the 
Kernel Virtual Machine packages, and the Athlon64 X2 is showing the 
"svm" flag, which indicates that it ought to work. So ... I think I'll 
play around with that.