I'm in hell. HELP ME PLEASE!!!

[Ben Pfaff]

Mike Szumlinski <szumlins@msu.edu> writes:

> Okay, so I thought my server was running great. It had been up for
> several days since I installed the new RAM in it, and by throwing the
> mem=262144K onto the command line in lilo, it seemed to recognize all
> the RAM. Sometime last night I had a power outage and the server went
> down. Now, when I give the mem= command in lilo, it gets to runlevel 3
> and just dies. It pulls up a console login, which I can type whatever I
> want, but when I hit enter it just deletes the line and doesn't prompt
> for a password. Other times it actually locks up (to my knowledge) and I
> can't get out at all. I'll publicize any logs/conf/whatever you guys
> need to figure this one out because I can't. It really sucks having a
> machine with 256MB of RAM that only sees 64 of it.

Have you tried a memory tester program?  Maybe it really has a
defective memory chip or two.
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