From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98; Agilent Technologies IE5.01 SP1) Description of problem: My machine has 256Mb RAM, for RH7.1 I used 16MB /swap and 256MB /boot, I reinstalled RH7.2 but kept original partitions using Disk druid to (re)set labels. It seemed to install OK (warning about /boot being too small) but crashed on booting with (I think) a complaint about virtual memory. I finally increased /boot to 50Mb and reinstalled 7.1, checked that everything seemed OK and then tried to upgrade to 7.2, this time I got a warning about not enough swap space and asking where to put a 256Mb (approx) swap file. The bug is that the warning didn't appear when installing / manually partitioning with disk druid. Regrettably it still doesn't boot but that is a separate problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Take a disk already partitioned but with with /swap == system RAM size 2. install rh7.2, manually partition with disk druid but stay with existing partitions and just use DD to set labels 3. continue with installation Actual Results: The system ran out of memory when booting Expected Results: I should have had a warning that my /swap was too small. Upgrading as opposed to installing had the correct behaviour. Additional info:
The swap was only too small for an upgrade. Doing an upgrade is much more intensive than an install and thus requires more swap space.
The additional comment is exactly wrong! The bug originally manifested itself on an install and as I was careful to point the bug was the the lack of warning about inadequate swap space which I assume was respnsible for the out of memory crash on booting.
On reflection, my preceding comment was too hasty (think before engaging fingers to type). The problem that concerned me was a boot failure after installing RH7.2, as I have an Athlon system it is possible that the known Athlon boot problem may have been responsible for the crash and that the swap space warning was a Red Herring.