Re: Installing 2.2 on a large memory system.
It is bad practice to respond to your own posts, but I will make an
exception for this one.
The problem got fixed by installing 2.2r3.
Haim.
Haim Dimermanas wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to install Potato (2.2) on a system with 1Gb of RAM (Dell
> 6350). It gives me crap when the kernel loads. The crap is: Kernel stops
> loading, screen goes black when it tries to detect IDE devices.
>
> I had this problem before with Dells with 1GB of RAM. I fixed it by
> removing some RAM, perform the install and put the RAM back (after
> recompiling a fresh kernel).
>
> In this case, I can't take the RAM off. I need to modify the kernel
> contained in the boot disk (and in the basic packages I guess) so that I
> can install the damn thing.
>
Reply to: