On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Martin Nilsson wrote:
> Anybody running a recent 5.3-stable amd64 on a box with lots of memory,
> and does it work?
>
> From very brief testing a Dual Opteron with 12GB memory just reboots
> when the kenel probes devices. SATA disks on built in SiL 3114
> controller. 5.3-stable from yesterday compiled with -O, the system works
> with 8GB memory.
>
> Have anybody else got a similar system working?
There was a known problem with 5.3-RELEASE and >4GB RAM. As you found,
5.3-stable has the fix, as well as 5.3-RELEASE-p5.
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