On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Ronny Buchmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 9. November 2003 13:02 schrieb M A Young: > > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Lance Davis wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, ERIC KLINGER wrote: > > > > Matt - Thanks for the reply. First I want to say that I pulled one > > > > stick of ram (I have 2x512mb) and installed it again and it worked!!!!! > > > > > > I have had _exactly_ the same problem , with 1 GB ram - removed one stick > > > and it is installing fine. > My system has 2x256MB and it didn't work, so it is not bound to 1GB. > > Another problem was there was no shell on 2nd console. Ditto. > > I didn't test with severn though. > > > Rather than changing the hardware, have you thought of telling the kernel > > you only have 512Mb at install time, ie. add mem=512M to the boot options? > mem=256M worked for me. weird Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.