[CentOS] Sun Fire X2100 & 4GB Ram

Fri Jul 21 02:34:25 UTC 2006
William M. Fennell <sawmf at channing.harvard.edu>

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 at icq
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