Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:59:56PM -0600, David I. Wright wrote:
> I have a Compaq Proliant 2500. It is a dual Pentium Pro 200 system with 2
> Pentium Pro 200 /512 cache processors and has 512 Meg of memory. The
> memory is 4 each 128 Meg sticks installed in the 4 memory slots.
>
> 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
I have a quad ppro that did exactly the same thing. AFAIK, its a compaq
specific bios bug.
Dell 6450s (used) to exhibit a similar problem with >4GB RAM. Can't
recall if they ever fixed it or not.
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