Unable to boot kernel on ANY Compaq system

[David Nedrow]

On Aug 9, 2004, at 18:01, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:04:40PM -0400, David Nedrow wrote:
>> Scenario 1:
>>
>> Simply booting the install loads anaconda, which then complains there
>> is not enough memory.
> ....
>> I've also tried nousb, nopcmcia, noprobe, acpi=off, skipddc, in
>> multiple combinations without any benefit or difference in errors.
>
> I think the not enough memory is a problem with DMA and some
> chip sets.
>
> There was dozen threads where turning off DMA solved things.
> Try "linux ide=nodma" at the Fedora installation boot prompt.
>

Nope, no difference. :(

-David