Thanks all. I used a non graphical boot menu and told it not to use a frame-buffer.
It now boots fine, I only see 800mb of ram but hell its better than 512mb. Thanks again On Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:20, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:00:44 +0100 > > Tsyko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have 1GB of ram, when I try a fresh install of Mandrake, it flashes a > > message on the screen and then locks up with all the lights on the > > keybaord flashing.. > > > > > > It works if I take a dimm out of the machine reducing it to 512MB.. > > > > > > System configuration is > > > > Epox 4GEA+ Motherboard (Intel 845GE Chipset) > > P4 2.53 > > 1gb Samsung DDR 333 Ram > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > You are getting this because the default kernel is compiled to support RAM > up to 896MB To address larger memory you have to load with the 'Enterprise > kernel' (It is on your CDs) > > However do not be surprised if your system runs *slower* with the high > memory upport. This is because the kernel has to perform extra operations > to address large memory. > > derek
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