Install hangs on Proliant 1600

[Jim Smith]

>Ron Patton wrote:
>> No, I haven’t tried that.  But I don’t have any IDE drives.  Does that
>> matter?
>
>Uhm, it still might.  Are you certain the CD isn't IDE?  Even if it
>isn't, the system still pokes at the IDE bus and that can hang it.  We
>had to set up about 30 servers in a two day period and about 50% of them
>needed that even though they were SCSI.  I can't recall if they were
>1600s or the slightly larger beast, but the "ide=nodma" seemed to do
>the trick.  Once they were running, you could take that out of the boot
>config so DMA was available for the CD, but the installer kernel
>couldn't handle it.
>
>By the way, Ron, we prefer bottom-posting here on the list (so do most
>Linux-oriented lists).  Just a gentle nudge in the ribs.  :-)
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Sorry I'm so long in responding.  I've been working up at the cabin for some
time.  Assuming that your machine has 256 Mb RAM (Substitute as
appropriate), try:

linux mem=exactmap mem=640K at 0 mem=255M at 1M

Remember Jerry;

Jim Smith