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. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq