Fedora dual boot installation problems

Edwin Humphries edwin at ironstone.com.au
Sun May 2 23:52:32 UTC 2004


Jeff,

Thanks for that - do you have any recollection of what BIOS settings 
were at fault?

On 2 May 2004 at 23:38, Jeff wrote:

> Ive had similar problems when installing both RH9 and Fedora - the
> problem with my machine was a dodgy stick of RAM. Have you ran
> memtest86 - its on the fedora installation CD - just enter 
> memtest86 at the boot prompt. If it comes back with loads of errors 
> then either the stick of RAM is on its way out or the RAM settings 
> in the BIOS are set incorrectly.
> 
> It sounds odd but I was also dual booting and Windows had no 
> problems with the same RAM - mine just turned out to be the wrong 
> settings in the  BIOS.
> 
> HTH
> Jeff


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