Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > I was just trying to *help*. Kernel people tend to not answer > much on kernel bugs, so I try to suggest reasons or workarounds, > I don't pretend they are right or anything of the like. > > Repeating myself: "highmem is not enabled but it should not be a > problem: the kernel would normally detect something like 896 Mo > and still boot." > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau
No offense intended here either Guillaume. I chipped in because this seemed to relate to a problem I experienced myself, and I hoped I could save everyone some frustration. As far as I can tell, this is strictly a graphical install issue, caused by 1G of memory, the video card, and the kernel frame buffer code. Once the system has Linux installed, everything works fine, as long as you don't boot into a frame buffer display mode (i.e. you must set video=normal in lilo). I suspect the video card is probably the issue here, since I can use an old Gforce 2 with 32M of ram, and have everything work fine, but my new Gforce 4 Ti-4200 with 128M of ram causes a kernel panic.
