Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-25 Thread Jim Pick
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can the 2.1/2.2 kernels handle a gigabyte of memory? Yes. For more than 1GB, go to: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/more_than_1GB.html There was a lot of discussion about this on the linux-kernel mailing list lately. > Also, I remember reading

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi again, > 2.0.x maxes out at 2^30-2^26 = 1006632960 bytes, or 960MB, of RAM. > > Thus, you'll wanna use "mem=960M". > > You can also adjust some headers (I forget which) to expand the kernel > memory / virtual memory split (it is adjustable, and it defaults to 1GB/3GB). Can the 2.1/2.2 kernel

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Robert, > # dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > # cd /mnt > # rm linux > # cp /place/i/have/my/working/kernel linux > # ./rdev.sh > # cd / > # umount /mnt > > Yes, the rdev.sh script does require that you mount the disk on /mnt. > > Make sure your rescue disk con

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Robert Woodcock
Ossama Othman wrote: >The machines both have two Adaptec 7890 and one Adaptec 7860 SCSI chipsets >installed. Each machine also has a gigabyte of memory and four Intel >Pentium II Xeons installed. In order to get RedHat to work we had to fool >the kernel into thinking that it had less than a gig o

boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I am having some real problems booting the current boot disks for potato on my Dell PowerEdge 6300 server system. The problem appears to occur when the rescue disk kernels probes for hardware. Everytime it begins to probe for SCSI hardware the machine just dies. I lose video signal and I en