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Linux 2.6 Kernel and Older ProLiants (PPro Machines)

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VinceV

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Dec 6, 2004, 11:32:30 AM12/6/04
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I hope this info helps someone else...

I stumbled across this issue attempting a Gentoo install using their
2004.3 distribution and the 2.6.x Kernel. They changed the name of the
memory kernel parms from mem to memmap.

With 2.4.x and older kernels you used a line like this to boot the
kernel on a mchine with 512 meg of ram

kernel mem=exactmap mem=640K@0 mem=511M@1M

With the 2.6 kernel that line now reads

kernel memmap=exactmap memmap=640k@0 memmap=511M@1M

To boot the Gentoo minimal install CD:
gentoo-nofb memmap=exactmap memmap=640k@0 memmap=511M@1M

Good Luck!

VinceV

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Dec 6, 2004, 11:32:44 AM12/6/04
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