Bug 4473 - Installer fails for machines >=1GB of RAM
Summary: Installer fails for machines >=1GB of RAM
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-08-11 14:45 UTC by xkahn
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-11 20:06:48 UTC
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Description xkahn 1999-08-11 14:45:38 UTC 
It seems like the initial RAM disk loads too high in memory
and can't load.  If I boot with:

linux mem=512M

then everything proceeds as normal.
Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-08-11 20:06:59 UTC 
This is a known kernel issue and is being looked into. Thank you for
bringing it to our attention.
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