it's a bit stupid advice, but why not try without the mem option take some of the RAMs out run memtest and if it works there is project for handling bedmem in the kernel Bill Shirley wrote: >I'm trying to get Beta 3 installed and ran into a: > >Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > >I booted install CD and hit F1 so I could run: >linux mem=900M > >I have: > >hda1, hdg1 RAID1 /boot >hda3, hdg3 RAID1 / >hdb2, hde2, hdh2 RAID5 /home >(hda2, hdg2, hdb1, hde1, & hdg1 are swap approx. 256M on each) > >on a AMD 1.2GHz machine. > >Anyone know what the problem is? > >Did the mem=900M remove some sort of init= option? If so, what should I >use? > >TIA, >Bill Shirley > >PS. This box has 1024M but it oops all over the place unless I give it >a smaller size. > >