On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 00:16, Terje Heen wrote:
> Hi there all. (I did not get any avswer on the newbie list, so I hope
> that you all forgive me that I'm trying on this list)
> I am a totally newbie folks, and I have tried to install Mandrake 9.1
> on a old compac Pentium server (Prosignia 500) with 160 Mb ram. The
> problem is that Mandrake only detects 16Mb of ram for some reason all
> thou the system counts 160Mb on POST. The memory consists of 16 Mb
> onboard (soldered directly to the main board) and 72 pins simm for the
> rest. I have tried the option by hitting F1 during startup and write
> linux mem=160M but after some seconds Mandrake replies: Kernel Panic:
> Unable to mount root fs on 01:03, and there it hangs.... I hope there
> are someone who can help me with an advice what to do......
>
> In advance, thanks
Terje,
Well since it's a compaq .... using it as a target at a shooting
range is an option (*grin*) I just spent 2 day and someone else spent 4
more getting any os (ended up with RH9) on a Proliant server. Seems
that Compaq likes to or liked neuter the BIOS on a lot of their boxes.
What I did find is two things one. A guy with the same problem that was
able to get Slack on the box.
http://www.carnall.org/prosignia_linux.htm
and I found that it's not a Mandrake problem... witness this bug report
at RH
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36940 (still open)
Seems that for reasons unknown Bios on these only reports the first 16mb
of ram no matter how much is there. I get some equally weird fun with
my laptop with RH (it won't install MDK and SuSE will because of the 2
part ram like you have.)
Some report doing something like this
linux append="mem=144M 16M"
A note here on that
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2002-September/msg02688.html
Only other google I found was this one.
http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=5053
In German though. So bablefish may be in order or a friend who reads
German.
James
Hope this helps... beyond this the only thing I can do is sympathize.
*grin*
>
> Terje..
>
>
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