On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 01:54, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:34:51PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 17:11, Pan wrote: > > > Sorry for the huge mail... I figured it out... too much RAM I guess. I > > > took out 512 and the installer booted... > > > > Note that this is probably just a limitation of the install kernel (IIRC > > PPC kernels require CONFIG_HIGHMEM for more than around 700M of RAM), > > which you could circumvent by e.g. passing mem=512m to it. > > Would this sound right (for all arches) in the Boot Troubleshooting > section? > > Index: rescue-boot.sgml > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/documentation/en/rescue-boot.sgml,v > retrieving revision 1.72 > diff -u -r1.72 rescue-boot.sgml > --- rescue-boot.sgml 2001/12/06 06:00:42 1.72 > +++ rescue-boot.sgml 2001/12/07 00:52:29 > @@ -912,6 +912,10 @@ > you may have to create a custom rescue disk (see <ref > id="rescue-replace-kernel">), or investigate network installations. > <p> > +If you have a large amount of memory installed in your machine, more > +than 512M, and the installer hangs when booting the kernel, you may > +need to include a boot argument to limit the amount of memory the > +kernel sees, such as <tt>mem=512m</tt>.
Sounds good to me. Would be even better if we knew the exact critical amount, but I guess half a gig is enough for installation. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
