Gordon Hay wrote: > Booting FC5, messages populate screen, scrolling normally until the > following error occurs: > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: failed to allocate mem resource #6 at 1000000@42000000 for > 0000:01:06.0 > PCI: Bridge for 0000:00:0d.0 > > At this point the cursor is stuck at bottom left and as far as I can > tell is unmovable. The screen no longer scrolls, and the console is > unusable. > > The system appears to boot OK, however: it's accessible via SSH and > seems fine. and then: > Kernel: I've tried several recent FC5 kernels, but the problem didn't > happen with FC4... > > lspci says: > 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: IBM IBM27-82351 (rev 01) > 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5430/40 [Alpine] (rev > 22) > 01:07.0 Network controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Netelligent > Integrated 1 0/100 TX UTP (rev 10) > 01:09.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev > 03) > > Does this generate any ideas? > This machine does have an odd memory config, see below... > > It's an elderly Compaq Proliant 2500 server > - 2 x 200MHz monster Pentium Pro processors > - 288MB of RAM > - no graphics. No Gnome/KDE or X, just a text-only installation using > the the "standard" motherboard VGA controller (though that seems to be > implicated somewhere...) > > The odd thing about this system is the memory "hole" between 640k and > 1m, and the fact that a standard FC4/5 boot only sees 16MB of RAM. > Adding kernel parameters "mem=exactmap memmap=640k@0 memmap=287m@1m" > allows all the memory to be seen. > > But I wonder if the VGA controller is trying to use memory that doesn't > exist? Are my kernel parameters confusing things? Though they do allow > the system to boot and use all its memory, and apparently run fine (as > long as I use SSH and not the console...) Hmm. I'm not sure what's going on here. Take a look at /var/log/dmesg and see what comes immediately after those lines. You could try with a different graphics card (although I'd have thought that unlikely). I'm not convinced that Fedora is picking up all the PCI devices in this machine. HP documentation (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/ProLiant2500/overview.html) and a Web search ( http://www.linux-nantes.fr.eu.org/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=LocaL : you may not speak French, but you should be able to spot the lspci output under "Passerelle Internet/ Retroviseur") suggest that you should be seeing at least a "Host bridge" and an "EISA bridge". [1] Do you think you're seeing everything you should be seeing on this machine? Is the VGA adapter built-in, or can you move it to a different PCI slot? Sorry I can't help more. James. [1] Hooray! *I* don't have to deal with EISA any more! -- E-mail address: james | ... more holes in Internet Explorer than @westexe.demon.co.uk | Blackburn, Lancashire... | -- http://theinquirer.net/?article=17235
