On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:42, R. Dale Thomas wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, R. Dale Thomas wrote: > > > > > >> I have a box that I have previously installed 9.0 from DVD. > >>I have made major changes in disk drives & DVD reader. However, now > >>attempting an install, with the 9.0 DVD or the CD's from 9.1b3 (which > >>I have used to install on another box, so they are OK), everything > >>seems to go alright untill the loading of second stage, and after > >>clearing the screen and issuing the message "loading second stage" > >>it just hangs. Nothing happens at all. Any ideas what I should > >>change? > > > > > > Did you change ram? Have you tested your ram recently? > > http://www.memtest86.com > > > Same 2Gig as the 9.0 installation was. Only 896M recognized, > although.
Memory's like any other mechanical thing ever...it works for a while, then breaks. Buchan was wondering if yours had broken. :). The standard kernel doesn't support over 1G of memory, you need to use the enterprise kernel. -- adamw
