[CentOS] Sun Fire X2100 & 4GB Ram

Thu Jul 20 21:15:27 UTC 2006
William M. Fennell <william.fennell at channing.harvard.edu>

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
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>William M. Fennell wrote:
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>>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?
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>>>It might help if you provide some information as to what's happening
>>>and what you are doing.
>>>
>>>j
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