Install hangs on Proliant 1600

[Rick Stevens]

Ron Patton wrote:
> That didn't work either.

Which of the several suggestions didn't work?  This is the problem with
top posting, gang.

> Now here is the strange part... I just installed SuSe 9.1 with no
> problems so what's wrong with RedHat 9.1?

There is no such beast as RedHat 9.1.  RedHat Linux ended with RedHat 9.
Free versions are now called "FC1" (Fedora Core 1) and "FC2" (Fedora
Core 2).  Purchased versions are "AS3" (Advanced Server 3), "ES3"
(Enhanced Server 3), "WS3" (Work Station 3), and "RHD3" (RedHat Desktop
3).

> BTW - Sorry for the top posting but we use Exchange/Outlook and I don't
> know of a way to change to bottom posting for a single reply.

Click "Reply", scroll to the bottom of part of the text you want to 
reply to and start your text.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Smith [mailto:jim at steelhead.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:24 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: RE: Install hangs on Proliant 1600
> 
> 
>>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
> 
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