Description of problem: Boot will hang up when either installing or booting after install if I do not specify how much RAM I have. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.18-1.2798.fc5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to boot kernel w/o mem=4G. Locks up. Actual results: Boot hangs Expected results: Either the install program should run or you should get to login prompt (after install) Additional info: Pentium Core Duo 2 (~1.66) 4GB RAM SATA ACHI mode 300GB x 3 Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 I must pass "nodmraid mem=4G" to get kerenl to boot cleanly. This bug is only against having to specify RAM size.
*** Bug 214339 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
1) Is kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc5 or 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6? 2) From the additional info, it is an i386 machine instead of ia64.
Could you post your dmesg using mem=4G. Also if you have a digital camera, remove the "quiet" from the kernel cmdline and take a picture of the lockup. Did this work before 2.6.18-1.2798.fc5 or did it never work?
(In reply to comment #2) > 1) Is kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc5 or 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6? Sorry FC6. Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > 2) From the additional info, it is an i386 machine instead of ia64. I guess processor may really be 32-bit, but I'm running 64 bit Linux and Vista without a problem. (well other than the one above)
So it's a x86_64 machine, not an Itanium (IA64) machine.
Sorry, my mistake.
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Closing per previous comment. If you can provide the requested information, please feel free to re-open this bug.