On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Fulko Hew wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > until now, i've test installed f9a several times on a gateway laptop
> > with 512M of RAM. after adding another 1G of DDR 400 RAM, every
> > install attempt ends up hanging somewhere -- checking SW dependencies,
> > formatting the root filesystem, and the latest 300+ packages into the
> > install.
> >
> > is there something about extra memory that f9a just doesn't like?
>
> You may want to consider trying an install with only the 1G stick
> installed replacing the existing 512M (if possible) instead of
> simply adding the additional memory... and seeing what happens
> during an install.
ok, here's the latest. just to make sure nothing had changed
overnight, i again tried an install with all 1.5G of RAM, and the
install hung at the 90% point of formatting the root filesystem.
(this is a default install, so i have a small /boot and the rest all
root.)
i restarted and added "mem=512m" and the install just got by that
point and is currently asking me about software and ... whoa ... bad
craziness:
...
Starting graphical installation...
install exited abnormally [1/1]
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
...
unmounting filesystems...
...
done
that is *so* not what i was hoping for. and virtual console 4 shows
a kernel panic. (details to follow depending on whether i can
reproduce it.)
to sum up, *every* install i've ever tried on this laptop with only
512M of physical memory installed has worked. *every* install i've
tried with the extra 1G in has failed, even if i used "mem=512m".
i'm going to try this one more time, with all 1.5G, and "mem=512m"
to see if that's exactly reproducible ... yup, it's reproducible but
virtual console 4 now tells me a different story:
... hald[1286] ... [I] osspec.c:273: /proc/mounts tells, that the
mount has tree changed [um ... what? is that english?]
(repeat last msg twice more)
and at the very top of the screen, i can just see:
... hald[1286] ... device.c:3890: Error removing device
what the heck, let's try this one more time, OK? with the
"mem=512m".
wow ... that didn't take long:
<6>anaconda[1275] general protection rip:2aaaaad6df3a rsp:7fff8c226c60 error:0
thoughts?
rday
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