On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, George H Griffin wrote:
We just acquired a used Proliant 2500 server (Pentium Pro w/2 scsi drives & 256MB of ram, DVD/CDROM & scsi tape drive). I have spent the better part of the day trying to install 9.0 on this machine and have experienced the following problems:
When trying to boot from CD 1 it hangs at "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0" (also the 8.2 CD 1)
When booting from CD 2 it boots all the way, but when I try to start the installation the ATAPE CDROM won't mount. This also happens when I try booting from a floppy.
I can boot from the 8.2 CD 2 and the CDROM mounts OK but YAST doesn't load because there's not enough memory.
When I run memtest it shows only 16MB of RAM (no errors), but the bios shows all 256MB. I've run the HP diagnostic utility and it also shows all the memory, and the tests it runs don't show any errors. (None of the other HP hardware tests show any errors either.)
Sorry for the multiple questions, but I'm really frustrated--especially by the memory problem. I've moved all of the DIMMS around, but that's all I could think of to try.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions anybody might have.
George
Hello and welcome to the club of tired and weary men trying to figure out how to install any Suse on almost any Compaq Proliant servers. Your memory problem may possibly get sorted is you add mem=256M to the kernel boot parameters in the boot prompt before the install starts. If this helps, your should be able to get as far as YaST2 crashing while trying to mount Smart2 RAID devices. This is how far I managed to get with Suse 8.0. If you can get furher than that, please let me/the list know. There are many people waiting any news of how you get on with 9.0+Proliant install :-) Hope this helps, -- --Jyry :-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-(