Thursday, December 20, 2012

archlinux 64 bit installation booting problem

I have this problem on my dell xps 630i desktop.
If I boot installation CD/usb to install 64 bit arch, it will crash and reboot. But 32 bit works fine. And 64 bit works on my other PCs.

I googled it and figured out it has something to do with the memory. 4G memory of the xps seems to bother arch 64bit kernel.

To solve this, I added "mem=2048M" to the boot script. Then the installation of 64 bit works.

The installed system works fine with any amount of memory.

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