On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Fulko Hew wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> until now, i've test installed f9a several times on a gateway laptop
> with 512M of RAM. after adding another 1G of DDR 400 RAM, every
> install attempt ends up hanging somewhere -- checking SW dependencies,
> formatting the root filesystem, and the latest 300+ packages into the
> install.
>
> is there something about extra memory that f9a just doesn't like?
You may want to consider trying an install with only the 1G stick
installed replacing the existing 512M (if possible) instead of
simply adding the additional memory... and seeing what happens
during an install.
ok, here's the latest. just to make sure nothing had changed
overnight, i again tried an install with all 1.5G of RAM, and the
install hung at the 90% point of formatting the root filesystem.
(this is a default install, so i have a small /boot and the rest all
root.)
i restarted and added "mem=512m" and the install just got by that
point and is currently asking me about software and ... whoa ... bad
craziness:
...
Starting graphical installation...
install exited abnormally [1/1]
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
...
unmounting filesystems...
...
done
that is *so* not what i was hoping for. and virtual console 4 shows
a kernel panic. (details to follow depending on whether i can
reproduce it.)
to sum up, *every* install i've ever tried on this laptop with only
512M of physical memory installed has worked. *every* install i've
tried with the extra 1G in has failed, even if i used "mem=512m".
i'm going to try this one more time, with all 1.5G, and "mem=512m"
to see if that's exactly reproducible ... yup, it's reproducible but
virtual console 4 now tells me a different story:
... hald[1286] ... [I] osspec.c:273: /proc/mounts tells, that the
mount has tree changed [um ... what? is that english?]
(repeat last msg twice more)
and at the very top of the screen, i can just see:
... hald[1286] ... device.c:3890: Error removing device
what the heck, let's try this one more time, OK? with the
"mem=512m".
wow ... that didn't take long:
<6>anaconda[1275] general protection rip:2aaaaad6df3a rsp:7fff8c226c60 error:0
thoughts?
rday
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