Problems installing new RAM in SUSE 9.3
 

I have a Soltek SL-75KAV motherboard, which says that I can shove different bits of ram in it at the same time (3 slots) of DIMM PC133 SDRAM. So I have two slots with 256 in each, put a new 512 stick in the third and I have issues.

THe computer turns on. It does a memory test, and that identifies that there is 1 gig in there. Once we boot up SUSE however, it gets to the line:

swsusp: Suspend partion has wrong signature?

And then does not continue.
Unfortunately I can't remember much else about the error message, so what I did was search and foudn some people had problems with KPowersave. So I booted up fine without the extra ram in, disabled KPowersave, shutoff, put the RAM back in, booted up.. the same thing happened.

I don't know how to get hold of that full output, as it doesn't give me a prompt or anything and just freezes. If anyone can help that would be great. It works without the RAM, and Soltek says I can mix'n'match, and does not get past that line with the RAM.

God Bless
Jonty

When you boot up, go to the grub menu and edit the boot parameters (on the current boot). Remove the resume=/dev/hd## and substitute "noresume".

Take a look at this link. SuSE is mentioned specifically on page 47.
https://www.linux-magazine.com/issue...re_Suspend.pdf

I hope this helps. Regards.

Many thanks. I did that and then that wasn't a problem any more. What happens now is that it doesn't get past the line

Running /etc/init.d/boot.local done

And nothing.
Beforehand, a variety of things can fail at each start up. The only consistent thing is that further up, there is always the message:

/etc/init.d/boot.rootfsk: line 30 : 2053 Segmentation fault mount -n -o remount,rw /

Where 2053 can be 2080 and then another file fails, or 2071 and a third couple fail.
Line 30 of the above file in context is:

export FSCK_MAX_INST

rc_reset

case "$1" in #this is line 30
start)
#
# fsck may need a huge amount of memory, so make sure, it is t
here.

Any ideas? Again, it boots fine without the ram, and the above happens with the added ram.

God Bless
Jonty

Try booting up once in the safe mode. Maybe the problem will resolve itself after that. I think that you need a swap partition twice the size of ram for swsusp to function properly.

I'm also wondering whether your ram is OK, or if it is the proper type.

Many thanks. Tried memtest-86 and it failed on the second pass.

God Bless
Jonty