Hi The vidio ram is in fact taken from the main memory, causing the 121M. One can set the amount of ram provided to the video card down to 2 megabyte. If we have gotten hold of a good technition over the phone, we would not have taken the board in for testing. It was fine, but the manual does not say the video ram is shared anywhere that we have looked. I tryed setting the mem=118M boot option, but as far as i could determine, it was not acted appon by the installer. I have also tryed the ide=nodma option, but it did not change the behaviour of the installer. Aggain, i am not sure that i have given these commands in the right way. We then disabled the display card in the bios and left the amount of video ram set at 2 M, the lowest even if the card itsellf is disabled. We used the old pci card and tryed the install aggain. Same result as before. We then took out the old 8 speed cdrom and connected the newer cdwriter to be used as a cdrom. We also then aggain tryed installing rh 7.2. It worked. Because we were beginning to suspect the hard disk, we have told the thing to "take over the disk". This caused the disk to be partitioned differently fronm what i wanted, so the install was done aggain. After that, we enabled the onboard video and set the memory back to 8 m. We also ran an upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 successfuly after Windows was installed on the first partition. This was the first time that i saw a cdrom that stop working always in the same place.
Thanks for all the help. Regards, Willem On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: > > Hi, > > I thought there are too many problems with rh 8.0 and > > decided to wait for 8.1. > > We are now taking the board to the distributor for testing. > > The 121 mb ram is shown as the box tests the memory before boot. > > It shows the vidio ram sepperatly so i do not think it is that. > > thanks anyway. > > regards, Willem > > Eeek. VIA chipset. Had the same problem on a board here. > > To get Linux to install I had to run the nodma option when installing. > > May not be it in your case but then again........ > > Regards, > > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services P/L > > > > -- Willem van der Walt Information Services Directorate Department of Health South Africa tel: 27 12 3120700 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
