Bug 72753 – Installation disk doesn't boot with P4 on i845E board

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Bug 72753 - Installation disk doesn't boot with P4 on i845E board

Summary:	Installation disk doesn't boot with P4 on i845E board

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2002-08-27 08:23 EDT by Jens Wiesecke
Modified:	2008-08-01 12:22 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 11:39:52 EDT
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Description Jens Wiesecke 2002-08-27 08:23:25 EDT

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Description of problem:
After creating an installation floppy with boot.img the systems stops booting
after "uncompressing linux ... ok booting the kernel". I can boot the machine
with kernls up to 2.4.19-pre6 if I pass a mem=512M parameter at boot time.
Kernels from 2.4.19-pre7 onwards don't boot.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. creating an installation disk (from RH 7.3 or beta "NULL")
2. booting machine
3. 
	

Actual Results:  system hangs completely after showing "uncompressing linux ...
ok booting the kernel"

Expected Results:  system boots; starting installation

Additional info:

System:
Pentium 4 (1.6 GHz Northwood)
i845E chipset (Chaintech board)
512 MByte DDR RAM

Comment 1 Jens Wiesecke 2002-09-06 02:21:04 EDT

it seems that this problem is BIOS related. memtest86 is reporting only 640kByte
of memory via the e820 procedure. Adding "mem=exactmap mem=640k@0 mem=511M@1M"
as boot parameter solves the problem - other problems like initialising ehci-usb
controler and ide come up

Comment 2 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 11:39:52 EDT

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/

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