Re: RHEL 4.0 Update 3 on a Dell 500SC

"Stephen J. Smoogen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
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On 4/3/06, Jay Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:52 -0400, McAleavey, Pat wrote:
>
> > The install is freezing during the disk format. I have tried to do a
> > manual format (my preferred way) and I have tried the automatic
> > format. Both machines freeze at, what appears to be, the end of the
> > disk format no matter which method I use.
>
> Trying kicking off the installation with "mem=512M" or something to that
> effect.  We've seen a couple of cases where ACPI probing is causing
> problems with installations and the footprint is that the machines
> freeze during formatting.  What's actually happening in the background
> is that all of the memory is getting eaten up.  I haven't seen this
> reported on a Dell so can't guarantee this will fix your problem but
> give it a try.
>

This fixes problems on HP xw9300 workstations, and some other boxes.
As with Jay, I havent had a problem with a Dell box yet but dont have
that particular beast. You may also try the old ACPI=off trick too.

> - jkt
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