Can install Severn, but not YARROW!

[ERIC KLINGER]

If I remember correctly, there was no shell on the second console - which 
dissappointed me because I wanted to run fdisk from there - but had to start 
into Slackware to run it.


>From: Ronny Buchmann <ronny-vlug at vlugnet.org>
>Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Can install Severn, but not YARROW!
>Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 22:49:40 +0100
>
>Am Sonntag, 9. November 2003 13:02 schrieb M A Young:
> > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Lance Davis wrote:
> > > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, ERIC KLINGER wrote:
> > > > Matt - Thanks for the reply.  First I want to say that I pulled one
> > > > stick of ram (I have 2x512mb) and installed it again and it 
>worked!!!!!
> > >
> > > I have had _exactly_ the same problem , with 1 GB ram - removed one 
>stick
> > > and it is installing fine.
>My system has 2x256MB and it didn't work, so it is not bound to 1GB.
>
>Another problem was there was no shell on 2nd console.
>
>I didn't test with severn though.
>
> > Rather than changing the hardware, have you thought of telling the 
>kernel
> > you only have 512Mb at install time, ie. add mem=512M to the boot 
>options?
>mem=256M worked for me.
>
>memtest86 didn't show any errors (I didn't expect any).
>
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