Bug 53691
Summary: | anaconda starts in textmode on a by X supported system and freezes after formating partitions | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Marc Richter <4thchildren> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-09-19 09:37:44 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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Description
Marc Richter
2001-09-15 10:24:39 UTC
*** Bug 53690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** When in the installer, try going to F2 and typing 'cat /proc/meminfo' and post the results of that here. I think the kernel may not be seeing all of your RAM. The shown results are: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: mem: 14688256 14295040 393216 2142208 4116480 3354624 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 14344 kB MemFree: 384 kB MemShared: 2092 kB Buffers: 4020 kB Cached: 3276 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB ============================================================================= I hope it helps to fix that problem... I was right. The kernel is only seeing 14MB of RAM in your system. I can only assume that the upgrade to the BIOS caused this problem. The install will force text mode if there's less than 35MB of RAM. Since the kernel is only seeing 14MB, that's what is happening. Try booting with 'linux mem=128M" That should force the kernel to see all 128MB of your RAM. Does that help? ... wow, it works! :) Thank you! I guess the motherboard maker messed up when they released the BIOS update since it used to work. Weird. Anyway, glad to know things are working now. Thanks for your report. |