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By the installation from CD or floppy disk you see:
loading initdisk.gz loading linux etc.
Next the boot messages appear, then the following message:
Partition Check: sda, sdb
or
Partition Check: hda, hdb
followed by:Cannot mount root partition
- Kernel Panic
.
or you receive:
bad pmt in pte_alloc:008000e7 kernel panic:failed to allocate buffer hash table
If you're booting from the diskette you receive the following message:
SCSI: 0 hosts
after which you receive a "Kernel Panic" message.
You don't come to the point to choose Kernel modules and such.
The system has one (or more) Gigabyte RAM which, during the SuSE Linux Installation is not supported (only 512MB are needed during the installation after which nearly one Gigabyte is supported).
Technically speaking the problem lies in the fact that the file initrd
is used during the installation. In the meantime there is a newer SYSLINUX
, that should solve the problem.
When booting from the diskette use the parameter "mem=512M
".
At the SYSLINUX
prompt type:
linux mem=512M
In order to boot from the hard drive use the kernel parameter "mem=960M
"; at the LILO prompt type
linux mem=960Mor add
mem=960M
to the append=
line in your /etc/lilo.conf
...it should look like this...
append="mem=960M"After this call
lilo
without any parameters (with this LILO actualizes the boot configuration).
Booting using loadlin
is also possible.
See also:
Keywords: CANNOT MOUNT ROOT PARTITION, KERNEL, PANIC, INSTALLATION, CANNOT, MOUNT, ROOT, RAM, MEMORY, PTE_ALLOC, 1GB
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