[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:10:53 -0800 (PST), Danny Tholen wrote: > >> >> On Friday 04 April 2003 01:09, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >> > Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > - on some videocards/mobo's there is a panic when using framebuffer >> > > if you have above 1GB memory. Booting vga=normal tends to work well >> > > for these people. >> > >> > known at least since #3198 :(. I think this will be a problem in >> > 9.1, but I don't know what to do. we couldn't reproduce here, to >> > add more problems :(. >> Yes its a strange problem. There is a thread on club about it. Some >> people have it, some people do not. Perhaps it is related to some bios >> option. In anycase, the workaround should go into the errata? >> >> d. > > Look at bugs 2048 and 2324. During the install, if you hit F1, and then > linux > mem=880m, you can install using the normal installer. I believe this is > the > real solution to the problem many people have during installation. For > the normal system boot, vag=normal is necessary, but works fine. > > Adrian Golumbovici (see 2324) isolated the problem on his system, and I > can confirm that using mem=880m enables me to use the standard installer. > > I think this is a really important item to get into the errata for 9.1. > I'm assuming the issue is 1G (actually 880M) or more of memory, which > causes problems with the NVIDIA TI series of cards, and many high end ATI > cards as > well. I'm afraid we may be in danger of not connecting up several issues > relating to the kernel used during installation and some particular > hardware items. > > Paul Misner
Could you try with my fixed boot images on http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/ Thomas
