Bug 6067

Summary: After installation of 32bit Mageia 2 laptop became unusable - Failed to allocate
Product: Mageia Reporter: Agron Selimaj <as9902613>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: High CC: davidwhodgins
Version: 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Failed to allocate - message

Description Agron Selimaj 2012-05-24 15:40:20 CEST
Description of problem:
Mageia 2 rc did not have this problem.

After installing Mageia 2 from 32bit DVD after the last reboot that boots from the hard drive the laptop (HP 6735b) shows a few pages of the same message and then it stops.

The message is:

Failed to allocate:
     size: 4096000 bytes
alignment: 0 bytes
  domains: 2



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 2

How reproducible:
Every time 


Steps to Reproduce:
Install Mageia 32bit (or 64bit) without any custimizations just go next, next, next....
Agron Selimaj 2012-05-24 15:43:21 CEST

Priority: Normal => High

Comment 1 Agron Selimaj 2012-05-24 16:08:31 CEST
Created attachment 2365 [details]
Failed to allocate - message
Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2012-05-24 22:10:20 CEST
See if the following steps help
https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/index.php?title=Mageia_2_Errata#Proprietary_card

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 3 Agron Selimaj 2012-06-08 05:34:59 CEST
Yes it does. Thanks Dave.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED