Hi Guys, Thanks for all the suggestions, Erik van Pienbroek got back to me with this suggestion, I will post the results of my testing tomorrow, his symptoms match exactly those that I am having now.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, Sounds just like my problem. I've just got an new P4 2,4Ghz box and when I tried to boot Linux (various Distro's tried) the kernel would hang at the point where it says "Uncompressing linux...". After monitoring the Linux Kernel mailing lists, I've found out the problem could be solved by passing the following parameters to the bootloader : mem=exactmap mem=640K@0 mem=510M@1M Since then I haven't had any troubles running linux on my new box. Hope this works for you too. Erik van Pienbroek ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I will post back again if this works, if so, perhaps someone else won't have to spend days trying to get linux going again.... Thanks Guys Brett -----Original Message----- From: Richard Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.3, 8.0 & P4 2.5 gig, any ideas ? quick note here the Epox 4g4a+ mobo is a great update board for an older ATX box and PSU. I talked recently with a friend who has one of these and he updated to the 2.4.19 after some stability problems with the 2.4.18 RH default kernel then noted "this machine rips" , so much the thing is running a bit hot and he had to upgrade the HSF; Ive noticed this too when doing allot of compiling on a P4 the stock HSF doesn't cut it and the cpu runs a bit on the toasty side. > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:43, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:37:46PM +1000, Brett Olsen wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > I have just upgraded to a P4 2.5 and I do not seem to be able to > > > install/run Linux anymore :-( > > [ .. ] > > > Epox 4g4a > > > Intel P4 2.5 > > > 2 x 256MB DDR > > > > > > > Leadtek 128MB Ti4200 > > > > I -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ******************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
