[plug] Bad EIP Value continued

[Angus McInnes]

The "lower mem" refers to the RAM accessible from real mode, which is
the RAM below 1MB. This can never be higher than 639K, on any PC.
Something else must be the problem.

On 1/22/06, Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz_g at arach.net.au> wrote:
>
>
> Joong Cho wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > You may remember me asking about this several months ago, or last year.
> > I tried a new RAM module today and the problem still props up. So could
> > it be related to another hardware issue altogether or would I have to
> > reinstall linux?
>
> I don't recall what the problem was; can you elaborate?
>
> >
> > Also, when I start debian and come to the blue screen, at the top it
> > says GNU GRUB version 0.95 (639K lower / 1045696K upper memory ). Could
> > this be the problem with the low lower memory and is there a way to fix
> > this without resorting to getting a new hardware or reinstalling the
> > software?
>
> This sounds fine to me.. the grub program itself is probably taking a
> little bit of memory just to run (I get this on a few boxes at home, to
> be honest I've never seen it at 640K.)
>
> >
> > And how do you run memtest86 again?
>
> I think the memtest site has a boot disk for itself.
>
> >
> > Cheers.
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> Tomasz
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