Hi folks,
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?
Thanks,
Bill
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
-- Jason Bradley Nance What would you cry for? aitrus@tresgeek.net Swallow your pride for? Tres Geek What would you go wild for? http://tresgeek.net/ -Poe, "Wild" --
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
-------------------- William M. Fennell UNIX System Administrator Channing Laboratory
Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
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
-- Jason Bradley Nance What would you cry for? aitrus@tresgeek.net Swallow your pride for? Tres Geek What would you go wild for? http://tresgeek.net/ -Poe, "Wild"
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
William M. Fennell UNIX System Administrator Channing Laboratory
Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
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
-- Jason Bradley Nance What would you cry for? aitrus@tresgeek.net Swallow your pride for? Tres Geek What would you go wild for? http://tresgeek.net/ -Poe, "Wild"
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Turns out it is not resolved if anyone could help I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Bill
William M. Fennell wrote:
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
William M. Fennell UNIX System Administrator Channing Laboratory
Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
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
-- Jason Bradley Nance What would you cry for? aitrus@tresgeek.net Swallow your pride for? Tres Geek What would you go wild for? http://tresgeek.net/ -Poe, "Wild"
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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kernal panic - notsyncing: pci-DMA : high address but ni IOMMU.
Isn't there an "install" mode in the BIOS which messes with the memory mapping?
j
-- Jason Bradley Nance What would you cry for? aitrus@tresgeek.net Swallow your pride for? Tres Geek What would you go wild for? http://tresgeek.net/ -Poe, "Wild" --
I'll check it out. However it installed Fedora Core 5 without incident.
Thanks,
Bill
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
kernal panic - notsyncing: pci-DMA : high address but ni IOMMU.
Isn't there an "install" mode in the BIOS which messes with the memory mapping?
j
-- Jason Bradley Nance What would you cry for? aitrus@tresgeek.net Swallow your pride for? Tres Geek What would you go wild for? http://tresgeek.net/ -Poe, "Wild" -- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I'll check it out. However it installed Fedora Core 5 without incident.
CentOS 4 is RHEL4. RHEL4 was based of FC3. So the kernel, etc for FC5 is going to be much newer than RHEL4, and therefore support more variety.
j
-- Jason Bradley Nance What would you cry for? aitrus@tresgeek.net Swallow your pride for? Tres Geek What would you go wild for? http://tresgeek.net/ -Poe, "Wild" --
William M. Fennell wrote:
Turns out it is not resolved if anyone could help I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Bill
William M. Fennell wrote:
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
you havent actually said what the problem is, beyond 'it does not work' - if you highlight the issue itself, someone might be able to help.
one thing that you might want to try is boot the installer with 'linux mem=512M' - which will allow the installer to work fine, and after the first reboot, you should see the entire memory ( if that is indeed what the problem is, i am only guessing since you've not mentioned the issue yet )
Also, can you try to not Top-Post, it makes a mess of the entire conversation thread, and in most cases people tend to ignore such emails on the mailing list.
Dude,
I'm trying to install the OS and I sent in the kernel panic error. Do you want me to ask the box how it feels about its inability to kickstart the os?
Bill
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
William M. Fennell wrote:
Turns out it is not resolved if anyone could help I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Bill
William M. Fennell wrote:
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
you havent actually said what the problem is, beyond 'it does not work'
- if you highlight the issue itself, someone might be able to help.
one thing that you might want to try is boot the installer with 'linux mem=512M' - which will allow the installer to work fine, and after the first reboot, you should see the entire memory ( if that is indeed what the problem is, i am only guessing since you've not mentioned the issue yet )
Also, can you try to not Top-Post, it makes a mess of the entire conversation thread, and in most cases people tend to ignore such emails on the mailing list.
-- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
William M. Fennell wrote:
Dude,
I'm trying to install the OS and I sent in the kernel panic error. Do you want me to ask the box how it feels about its inability to kickstart the os?
Bill
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
William M. Fennell wrote:
Turns out it is not resolved if anyone could help I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Bill
William M. Fennell wrote:
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
you havent actually said what the problem is, beyond 'it does not work'
- if you highlight the issue itself, someone might be able to help.
one thing that you might want to try is boot the installer with 'linux mem=512M' - which will allow the installer to work fine, and after the first reboot, you should see the entire memory ( if that is indeed what the problem is, i am only guessing since you've not mentioned the issue yet )
Also, can you try to not Top-Post, it makes a mess of the entire conversation thread, and in most cases people tend to ignore such emails on the mailing list.
i missed that bit in the mess your top posting is creating, anyway. have fun.
On 7/20/06, William M. Fennell sawmf@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
Dude,
I'm trying to install the OS and I sent in the kernel panic error. Do you want me to ask the box how it feels about its inability to kickstart the os?
We have SunFire X2100s as well, but with 2 GB. IIRC one pair of memory slots is a different color.
Is 3 GB a permissible configuration?
I don't recall for sure, but isn't there a BIOS setting for Linux?
Is it a factory config of 4 GB or did you buy from Crucial/Micron or?
It's hard to believe Sun missed this one ...
rgds/ldv
Tom Brown wrote:
I'm trying to install the OS and I sent in the kernel panic error. Do you want me to ask the box how it feels about its inability to kickstart the os?
I have got a bunch of x4100's with 8gig RAM and i have not seen this issue. Are you using the latest updates? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I'll download a fresh install and see what happens. Also to answer another email, 3gb is not permissible because the docs say the chips have to be added in pairs.
Regards,
Bill PS this post is bottom posted for everyone's reading enjoyment :)
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
Tom Brown wrote:
I'm trying to install the OS and I sent in the kernel panic error. Do you want me to ask the box how it feels about its inability to kickstart the os?
I have got a bunch of x4100's with 8gig RAM and i have not seen this issue. Are you using the latest updates? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I'll download a fresh install and see what happens. Also to answer another email, 3gb is not permissible because the docs say the chips have to be added in pairs.
Regards,
Bill PS this post is bottom posted for everyone's reading enjoyment :)
0. Thanks for bottom posting.
1. I argue the docs may be right or wrong since Sun sells and we have taken delivery of at least one X2100s with only one socket of RAM.
2. Have you upgraded the BIOS? I think our machines are at 1.4, but like Dennis Miller I could be wrong about that.
rgds/ldv
<snipped crap>
PS this post is bottom posted for everyone's reading enjoyment :)
Since it appears that crappy email programs like outlook and the rest have made people complacent and functionally retarded when it comes to email, I present this link for your enlightenment and reading pleasure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
Top posting is hideous. Bottom posting, while better is still bad. Read that link, because there will be a quiz later.
Just because your email client is retarded doesn't mean you as a user have to be. Demand better of yourself and others.
On 7/21/06, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
Since it appears that crappy email programs like outlook and the rest have made people complacent and functionally retarded when it comes to email, I present this link for your enlightenment and reading pleasure.
Me thinks Thunderbird's default is to top post, so there's less than universal agreement among the pros and the public, but I myself prefer bottom posting and that others edit the prior posting (a left over from Usenet days).
rgds/ldv
I will try to bottom post in the future.
Larry Vaden wrote:
On 7/21/06, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
Since it appears that crappy email programs like outlook and the rest have made people complacent and functionally retarded when it comes to email, I present this link for your enlightenment and reading pleasure.
Me thinks Thunderbird's default is to top post, so there's less than universal agreement among the pros and the public, but I myself prefer bottom posting and that others edit the prior posting (a left over from Usenet days).
rgds/ldv _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
William M. Fennell wrote:
I will try to bottom post in the future.
Larry Vaden wrote:
On 7/21/06, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
Since it appears that crappy email programs like outlook and the rest have made people complacent and functionally retarded when it comes to email, I present this link for your enlightenment and reading pleasure.
Me thinks Thunderbird's default is to top post, so there's less than universal agreement among the pros and the public, but I myself prefer bottom posting and that others edit the prior posting (a left over from Usenet days).
rgds/ldv _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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I can't believe I just did that :)
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
I can't believe I just did that :)
Are you already at the current revision of BIOS?
Ref: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/downloads.jsp.
rgds/ldv
Larry Vaden wrote:
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
I can't believe I just did that :)
Are you already at the current revision of BIOS?
I don't think that human brains are flashable. ;-)
Just kidding.
-Steve
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 12:09 -0500, Steve Bergman wrote:
Larry Vaden wrote:
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
<snip>
I don't think that human brains are flashable. ;-)
Even w/NO drug background, I *know* mine has been flashed a couple of times!
Just kidding.
Just serious here!
-Steve
<snip sig stuff>
On 7/21/06, Steve Bergman steve@rueb.com wrote:
Are you already at the current revision of BIOS?
I don't think that human brains are flashable. ;-)
Just kidding.
Speak for yourself --- that reminds me of the perfect product invented by a former monopoly player in this industry --- they had to recall all units and add a fifth switch position (read: OFF).
rgds/ldv
Larry Vaden wrote:
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
I can't believe I just did that :)
Are you already at the current revision of BIOS?
Ref: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/downloads.jsp.
rgds/ldv _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I am now, I may have been before but I flashed it and I still have the same issues. Bill
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
I am now, I may have been before but I flashed it and I still have the same issues.
Bill, which OS are you testing with (32 bit or 64 bit)?
We run i386 on SunFire X2100s because we can't verify 64 bit code is ready for prime time.
rgds/ldv
The 64 bit was what I was trying to use. I've opted for fedora core 5 at this point.
Bill
Larry Vaden wrote:
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
I am now, I may have been before but I flashed it and I still have the same issues.
Bill, which OS are you testing with (32 bit or 64 bit)?
We run i386 on SunFire X2100s because we can't verify 64 bit code is ready for prime time.
rgds/ldv _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
The 64 bit was what I was trying to use. I've opted for fedora core 5 at this point.
Not a bad decision if configuration longevity/stability is not an issue.
Help wanted: folks willing to help forklift upgrade from FC3.
(I've tried waiting on application obsolesence, but DNS is still with us :)
rgds/ldv
Hello,
I needed to format the hard disk. Just installing the os and erasing partitions wasn't enough. I needed to use the erase option on the bios cd.
Regards,
Bottom-Postin' Bill
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
Hello,
I needed to format the hard disk. Just installing the os and erasing partitions wasn't enough. I needed to use the erase option on the bios cd.
FC5 or Centos4.3?
rgds/ldv
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Larry Vaden wrote:
On 7/21/06, William M. Fennell william.fennell@channing.harvard.edu wrote:
Hello,
I needed to format the hard disk. Just installing the os and erasing partitions wasn't enough. I needed to use the erase option on the bios cd.
FC5 or Centos4.3?
rgds/ldv
Centos 4.3. Works like a charm :)