Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 152639
installer gets stuck on low-mem system
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:02 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 Description of problem: Dual-PIII system, one IDE drive, 128MB RAM. I'm doing a text-mode install, in several ways: Custom, Server, etc. I typically de-select all package groups, then re-select Development and Legacy Devel. The installer always gets stuck when starting to install the libgcc package (which is the 3rd or 4th IIRC). If i switch to the default graphical install mode, everything is fine. I replaced the 128MB memory chip with a 256MB chip, and now the text-mode install is fine. Normally i wouldn't report this, but i need the text-mode install to work flawlessly because i'm doing a lot of kickstart installs in text-mode, so perhaps this issue is signaling a hidden text-mode bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.see above 2. 3. Additional info:
Any errors on tty3 or tty4? Can you look at alt-sysrq-m (output will be on tty4) to see if the kernel looks low on memory?
Damn, i upgraded the system to 256M, i don't think there's an easy way to go back. Sorry.
You can boot with mem=128M
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