[Rule-list] Modified installer

Brock Organ borgan at redhat.com
Tue Feb 19 16:07:26 EET 2002


On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 20:34, Devon wrote:
> 
> Yes, but troubling that your machine failed to boot with the mem=24M 
> parameter. I can't see where it could be related to the installer 
> changes, however. The fact that it boots without the kernel parameter 
> would seem to indicate that the module exists and can be loaded.
> If you have the time and inclination, could you do a base install (custom 
> class, selecting no packages) of the official release and try the mem=24M 
> option? I'm curious, but have no means at my disposal to test this 
> further. 

I've since tested the RULE image on a different machine (ide based) and
the mem= line works just fine ... I've seen this issue enough in the
last few months to know there is a gremlin somewhere (probably in the
kernel or initrd) but we haven't nailed down the problem ...

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