madarnie

Thanks It worked. Two 512MB stics with acpi=off worked. Regards Arnie

While installing Mandriva 2008 in text mode, Mandriva erased the entire harddrive partitions. The partitions were as follows: two 10 GB for Windows, and 17 GB as free space. I used this free space for installing Mandriva (by selecting custom partitioning), I assigned 10GB for root partition and 1GB for swap. It asked me for writing the partition table, i verified and selected yes, and an error message was displayed saying "some error in creating partition". When I clicked 'previous' it showed me about 92TB of hard-drive with all other partitions including 17GB of free space. My total hdd capacity is 40GB. The graphical installer has no such issues. Please let me know how to file a bug report, and what all information I require to submit. Arnie

I thank you all for helping me out!

Yes. Mandriva and other Linux distros are not running on 1GB. I have updated my BIOS, but to no avail. Today Mandriva 008 is out. I installed it and its running well. But older distros along Knoppix dont run, unless I turn off the 'apci' settings. So, the RAM is OK but there is some issues with distros to recognize it. Arnie

But my only concern remains that while my old Windows runs fine on this new 1GB RAM, why is Linux (Mandriva) failing? I did the memtest it was fine. So this is not something good. Can someone help me understand why Mandriva has issues with hardware while Windows can handle it? Arnie

Thanks alot John. I will keep that in mind in future and will let you know if that helped. Thanks for taking your time in helping me out. Regards Arnie

Thanks Greg. I will try this today evening after office. Will update you of the result. regards Arnie

As per HP Compaq my motherboard supports only 1GB of RAM and they say to find how much memory should be added per slot, divide the total memory with the number of slots. I have 2 slots so does that mean I cannot use 1GB RAM in a slot and instead go for a pair of 512-512 RAM each slot? http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documen...mp;lang=en#N320 Please suggest!

Thanks. I have HP Compaq SR1230IL machine. 2.8 Ghz P4 processor. 845 motherboard. The new memory is Hynix 1gb ddr pc 400. Older RAM was Samsung. I tried adding it to the existing memory as well as removed the old one. But machine can run well on old 256MB. I have done memtest for new RAM. Test was OK I am running Mandriva 2007. But I cannot run any of the other Live CDs including Knoppix as well :( The machine runs well on Windows with 1GB RAM Arnie

Hi! I upgraded RAM of one of my machines from 256MB to 1GB. But my mandriva freezes after uncompressing Linux stage. I tried other distros as well as Live CDs like Knoppix but things are same. Where as a copy of Windows is running well on upgraded RAM. When I remove 1GB RAM the system boots with Mandriva. Please help.