scho Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Don't remember, is there an easy way to check, or do I have to boot with -v and look fast? Heh, I'm not sure actually. But I just bought and installed a new NIC that ran native out of box. After disabling the onboard LAN, I did a fresh install and the first thing i tried was to unrar the same 4GB file, and it will only do it in safe mode (strange). When in normal boot, it gives me a kernal panic at around 1 GB. Right now I'm downgrading to ToH 9.1.0 to see if that fixes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scho Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I believe I have fixed all of my stability issues. I had to boot with maxmem=2048 while having 4GB of memory installed. The Zephyroth 10.5.2 installs a kernel that is not 64bit compatible and thus boots with a legacy flag invoked. This causes memory management issues that stem from not being able to address more than 4GB of memory locations (physical ram + video ram). Thus, if you tell the system you have 4GB of physical ram and yet it only knows how to get to a portion of it, some kernel panics are expected. I should be able to boot with maxmem=3584 since my video card is 512MB, but I haven't tried this yet. Hope this helps someone else out there. edit: Doesn't work with 3584. I forgot about all the other little components that have flash ram and need memory addressing. Fully stable on maxmem=3072 (3GB). Also, booting in safe mode with full 4GB is stable, but I think this is b/c my graphics card isn't utilized in safe mode, and thus, os x can address the 4GB of physical memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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