Re: Fighting some install issues with a new box -- last possibility, memory size ...

[b.j.smith at ieee.org (Bryan J. Smith)]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:44 -0700, Sean O'Connell wrote:
> OK. But here's the problem. What difference will removing 2GB of Ram
> make any difference once the machine is back up and running with 4GB of
> RAM.

The idea here is to _eliminate_ the fact that it could be a memory hole
or 4GiB issue.  If it _is_ the 4GiB issue, then Tyan has a _lot_ of
explaining to do, and a fix to provide.  I seriously doubt this is your
issue, but I had to suggest it anyways.

>  would feel better if the PCI bus actually saw the card. I will
> try doing a few things tomorrow:
> 1) Try moving the 3Ware card from the 133MHz slot to one of the 66MHz
> slots and see if linux sees the card.
> 2) I will possibly try removing 2GB of RAM and see if things magically
> start working :)
> 3) I'll poke around in the BIOS some more and reread the kernel
> parameters list again and see if something obvious appears.

There's a lot of BIOS settings that could be affecting it at the post.

 
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