When I try to install Fedora by booting up on the first CD and hit enter with no options it displays many lines of stuff and then displays a message box that says I do not have enough RAM to do the install. This message box has an OK button in it that is highlighted. If I hit enter the system runs a halt system and then reboots. If I type the following at the command line:
linux mem=512M
It then displays many lines of stuff with the following being the last four lines:
Net4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:02 iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 09:02
I have tried RH 9.0 and Suse 9.0 with the same general results except the dev=xx:xx was different for Suse 9.0.
One curios note. I tried to install Suse 8.0 awhile back and managed to do so but it was by accident. It would not install without some options on the command line. After much searching doc's etc. I found that I could disable the probing for USB stuff by using the following on the command line:
hwprobe=-c03:*:*
It seemed to insist that I had a USB mouse instead of the PS/2 mouse that was plugged into the box. This got me further into the install process but would still hang. I then discovered mem=512M option but it only got me a little further into the install process where it would also just hang. I had given up on this when I started checking some extra memory sticks I had in order to identify what size they were. I removed one of the 128 Meg memory sticks and used this memory slot to test a stack of memory sticks I had. One at a time I would check a stick of memory put it in a stack for its size and try the next one. The last one was a 16 Meg or 32 Meg, I don't remember, but I went ahead and let it boot with the two options I had previously been using trying to install Suse 8.0. I watch in disbelief as it booted up and let me start the install. I was able to install and use the system with Suse 8.0 Of course I tried all this with Fedora, RH9 and Suse9 but no luck.
Any suggestions were to look next?? Oh one other thing I did run 3 passes of the memory test on the memory install in the system in case that last 128 Meg memory stick was bad. I tried the same memory configuration for the Fedora, RH9 and Suse9 install but no luck.
Sorry for dragging this out.
Woodchip44
