Has anyone successfully install Fedora Core 5?
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The RAM issue isn't a parallels issue.
<comment: it would be nice if parallels bothered responding on the forum as they don't respond to emails. sad thing as their product is very good. support sucks.>
The RAM issue relates to the intel chip. you need to change the grub script in the boot loader. to do this, boot linux with 512mb, then edit the /etc/grub.conf file. on the kernel line, add
mem=nopentium
then you're good to go and can boot with as much ram as you like.
<comment: it would be nice if parallels bothered responding on the forum as they don't respond to emails. sad thing as their product is very good. support sucks.>
The RAM issue relates to the intel chip. you need to change the grub script in the boot loader. to do this, boot linux with 512mb, then edit the /etc/grub.conf file. on the kernel line, add
mem=nopentium
then you're good to go and can boot with as much ram as you like.
oops. i meant it is a linux problem. her is one of the pages discussing it:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
you can google linux mem=nopentium grub kernel and find more info
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
you can google linux mem=nopentium grub kernel and find more info
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vazexqi said:Thank you for the responds.
So I tried everything again, this time using an expanding hard disk (max 10 GB) and with 256 MB of RAM. Everything installed fine and it works fine now after the restart. Even networking with airport is working.
Now that everything is working, I tried bumping up the memory to 512 MB for the sake of trying and it still works. Tried 768 MB and it gives the same errors. 700 MB gives errors as well. 600 MB gives errors as well. 516 MB works though. I did not try other amounts but there seems to be a limit to how much RAM you can allocate to Fedora Core 5.
This is an interesting problem since Fedora Core 4 does not seem to exhibit it.
Thanks to your trial and errot I was able to get my Fefora Core 5 install working as well. I had similar problems until I reduced the RAM allocation below 512MB.