The boot floppy for the RedHat 5.2 installer contains a vmlinuz image that crashes my new machine. Machine Details: Tyan S1836DLUAN-GX motherboard Dual PII 450MHz 1GB RAM 9.1 GB Ultra SCSI western digital hard drive Diamond Viper 550 video controller Boot message: ... calibrating delay loop.. ok - 450.56 BogoMIPS initrd overwritten (0x00e00000 < 0x01014e34) - disabling it. Memory: 1032740k/1048576k available (708k kernel code, 384 reserved, 14744k data) Bad pmd in pte_alloc: 008000e7 Kernel panic: Failed to allocate buffer hash table In swapper task - not syncing Note: The boot floppy for -> RedHat 5.0 <- does not crash the machine, but I want to install RedHat 5.2
Found workaround. It appears the kernel will not boot with very large memory sizes (such as 1GB). Giving the following parameters works: linux mem=1008M expert
This problem should be fixed in the latest 2.0.36 final release. Try downloading the new 2.0.36 rpm when it is made available and try this one again. If yes then please close the bug report.