Bug 2214
| Summary: | Install fails to boot with >= 1GB memory | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Stephen Tweedie <sct> |
| Component: | aboot | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | sct |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-06-04 14:48:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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We are aware of this limitation. The installer is only capable of running on < 1G of RAM, so the workaround is to boot the machine with a mem= line and perform the installation. After installation, the running machine will be able to make use of all RAM that you have in the system. |
Quad Xeon, 8GB memory (960M used by Linux). The installer fails to boot: the initrd cannot be loaded, giving the error initrd extends beyond end of memory (0xfeff9433 > 0xfc000000) 5.8 cdrom and floppy installs did not have this problem. 5.9 and all subsequent betas do. Booting with "linux mem=512m" is a workaround.