Bug 72753 - Installation disk doesn't boot with P4 on i845E board
Summary: Installation disk doesn't boot with P4 on i845E board
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-27 12:23 UTC by Jens Wiesecke
Modified: 2008-08-01 16:22 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-09-30 15:39:52 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Jens Wiesecke 2002-08-27 12:23:25 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607

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.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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 06:21:04 UTC
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 15:39:52 UTC
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/



Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.