Try passing this at boot:
mem=exactmap mem=640K@0 mem=2047M@1M
Just an idea. I have to do this on an old Compaq with memory that
sits on an EISA card.
Sincerely,
Jim Hubbard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com
> [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Allan M. Stewart
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:24 PM
> To: psyche-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Bleeding edge blues
>
>
> Someone threw a bunch of money at a vendor and we wound up with:
>
> Intel Server Board SE7500WV2 with Intel E7500 chipset
> 2 gig mem
> Adaptec 2110 raid controller (also tried adaptec 3410 raid and
> onboard Adaptec SCSI but still no joy)
> 2X Intel Pentium 4 1.80AGHz processors
> all for install in SR2300 rack chassis
>
>
> Redhat 7.3 installs fine, but on reboot after install we get:
>
> Linux...
>
> and nothing else. It just hangs there forever.
>
> 8.0 also installs fine but after grub screen, it hangs with error:
>
> Error 28: Selected item can not fit into memory
>
> I tried passing mem=2048M and mem=1024M to the boot image,
> thinking that
> it was failing to probe the memory, but it didn't help.
>
>
> I'd really hate to see this become a windoze box.
> Thanks for any clues.
>
> Allan
