Bug 4483

Summary:	systems with too much ram choke on the stock boot.img
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	leaf
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description leaf 1999-08-11 22:35:55 UTC

Trying to boot from either the cd or a boot floppy will give
an error of:
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:21
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:21

I'm not sure if this happens on IDE-only systems, but the
system i encountered this on had an aic7xxx-type scsi
controller controlling both the CDROM and the disk.

Passing `linux mem=128M' got the install rolling.

Even a better error message would be enough to close this
bug.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-09-25 03:17:59 UTC

This is fixed with syslinux-1.45 in the new installer.