Re: Problem installing

"Keith Mastin" <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:02:49 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Hi All
>
> I have tried to install a version of enigma on an old PC the
> configuration of the PC follows:
>
> Pentium-S 200 Mhz
> 49152 Mb Ram
> 4Gb - SCSI HDD
> AHA 1540CR SCSI controller
> HITACHI CDR-7730 - IDE CDROM
> S3 65 Virge Graphic Card
> Serial Mouse
>
> I started the installation by booting the computer into DOS and running
> the autoboot.bat found in
> \dosutils on the CD.
>
> I get a list of text then a blue screen followed by:
>
> Running anaconda - please wait...
> Install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11

Signal 11 is a memory error. Are you sure that the amount reported (49152
Mb Ram) is correct? there is an upper limit of about 2 GB RAM unless you
use the bigmem kernel configuration.

Test your ram with memtest86 (do a google search for it) to make sure it's
good.

> (unmounts devices and stop with the following message)
> you may safely reboot your system
>
> When installation tried from a boot floppy, the installation end with
> the following:
>
> kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
>
> Can anyone help.
>
> Thanks
> James
>
>
>
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