Out of memory while booting?

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> From: Charles G Montgomery <cgm at physics.utoledo.edu>
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:59:00 -0400

> The machine has an AMD 64 cpu, 2 GB memory, an ASUS A8V-XE 
> motherboard. I run Debian testing (currently squeeze).
> 
> Booting starts normally and proceeds quite a way.  It gets as far as 
> loading kernel modules and then starts issuing console error 
> messages about being out of memory.  It starts killing processes 

Perhaps the most important question (which no one seems to have asked
yet)... has this kernel+OS ever successfully booted on this machine?
If so, what did you do immediately prior to the breakage?

Have you tried booting with init=/bin/sh ?

Are you sure you're using the correct kernel for your CPU? (You might
have a .config for it under /boot)