installing gentoo on compaq proliant 1500 w propietary mem

[shadowknight]

I got gentoo running nicely on my main pc and trying to install for friend on older compaq proliant 1500 w dual pI 200 mhz processors and over 256 mb ram. The problem is I can't boot off the cd because it uses compaq's propietary memory and won't load into ramdisk. Any suggestions or work arounds for this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Tumbok]

Have you tried specifying the amount of memory in the kernel params on the boot prompt?
i.e.
# linux mem=512M

or however much you have. I had to do that on my 1700 for it to work. Hope that helps.

Tom

[shadowknight]

haven't tried that yet. I will give it a try this afternoon and post any changes