[CentOS] Sun Fire X2100 & 4GB Ram

Fri Jul 21 09:18:48 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

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.

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