RE: [LUG]Compaq Proliant problems (was Compaq Presario problems)

["James Wonnacott" <jwon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I'm working on two macines at present, one a presario, the other,
a proliant.
It is the Proliant I'm having the problem with!!
Therefore the previous message shoulkd be:-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Wonnacott
> Sent: 11 February 2004 08:20
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [LUG] Compaq Proliant problems
>
>
> I've recently aquired a Compaq Proliant 4000 which 
> I'm trying to put Mandrake 9.2 on. I use Mandrake on 
> several servers in the school and want to keep 'em all the same.
>
> The problem I'm having is firstly that it only seems to see 
> 16M of memory. After a bit of Googling I've tried various 
> options such as mem=192M and append="mem=176M 16M" It then 
> doesn't seem 
> to get as far into install but throws up:-
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 0n 01:03
> which makes me think it has a problem with the array.
>
> I don't have the original Compaq setup disks that came with 
> the server (not suprisingly)
>
> Any suggestions? (I've already had the usual ones "Use it as 
> a doorstop/target practice")
>
> Thanks
> James
>
>
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