[CentOS] Sun Fire X2100 & 4GB Ram

[William M. Fennell]

Hi,

i may have answered my own question.
There seems to be a bios setting.
will follow-up.

Bill


William M. Fennell wrote:

>I suppose it would :)
>
>trying to install from cd-rom that has worked fine onto machines that
>have worked fine.
>I have two sun fire x2100s with 4gb of ram.  This works fine with
>solaris not centos.
>I need to install centos on those hosts and I get a kernel panic that
>states:
>kernal panic - notsyncing: pci-DMA : high address but ni IOMMU.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill
>
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>William M. Fennell
>UNIX System Administrator
>Channing Laboratory
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>Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
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>>>I am having issues installing Centos 4.3 X86-64
>>>on a Sun Fire X2100(AMD chip).  It works with 2GB of ram just not 4 GB.
>>>It works with any combo of the 4 1GB chips I have.  It only works
>>>with 2GB
>>>not 4GB any ideas?
>>>      
>>>
>>It might help if you provide some information as to what's happening
>>and what you are doing.
>>
>>j
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>>
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