Hi, All, I am trying to install SLES 8 on a 4-way Opteron platform. The installation fails at the very beginning, just after it boots, finds some devices and has to show me the installation menu. Instead, the installation displays the error message: "An error occurred during the installation". If I switch between screens, I can find another error messages, such as: "non-volatile memory driver v1.1" and "error -3 while decompressing". On a 2-way Opteron system it installs fine. Are there any suggestions? Has anyone tried to install SLES 8 on 4-way Opteron? Has anyone tried SLES 9 on 4-way Opteron? -- Best wishes, Sergey Tolokunsky
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:05, Sergey Tolokunsky wrote:
Hi, All,
I am trying to install SLES 8 on a 4-way Opteron platform. The
Which system exactly?
installation fails at the very beginning, just after it boots, finds some devices and has to show me the installation menu.
Instead, the installation displays the error message: "An error occurred during the installation".
If I switch between screens, I can find another error messages, such as:
"non-volatile memory driver v1.1" and "error -3 while decompressing".
On a 2-way Opteron system it installs fine.
The same system with 2 CPUs pulled, or a whole different machine?
Are there any suggestions? Has anyone tried to install SLES 8 on 4-way Opteron? Has anyone tried SLES 9 on 4-way Opteron?
Yes we tested quite a few of them. A frequent source of trouble are old BIOSes. Please make sure you have the latest BIOS release and try again... BB
Dear all, Thanks very much for answering. I am using the TYAN S4882 motherboard with 4 Opteron 850 installed and 8 GB of memory. This board is equipped with the onboard LSI SCSI controller. The hard drives are plugged though it. No RAID is installed. The board comes with the newest BIOS, available on the TYAN site: 1.02. I am trying to install SLES 8 AMD64 edition. I have SP3 on the additional CD. By the way, SLES 8 x86 edition does not start at all - it hangs immediately after the initial screen. I have no problems with installing SLES 8 on 2-way Opteron systems, based on TYAN S2882 and TYAN S2881 boards. -----Original Message----- From: Bodo Bauer Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:59 PM To: Sergey Tolokunsky Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] error while installing SLES 8 on 4-way Opteron On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:05, Sergey Tolokunsky wrote:
Hi, All,
I am trying to install SLES 8 on a 4-way Opteron platform. The
Which system exactly?
installation fails at the very beginning, just after it boots, finds some devices and has to show me the installation menu.
Instead, the installation displays the error message: "An error occurred during the installation".
If I switch between screens, I can find another error messages, such as:
"non-volatile memory driver v1.1" and "error -3 while decompressing".
On a 2-way Opteron system it installs fine.
The same system with 2 CPUs pulled, or a whole different machine?
Are there any suggestions? Has anyone tried to install SLES 8 on 4-way
Opteron? Has anyone tried SLES 9 on 4-way Opteron?
Yes we tested quite a few of them. A frequent source of trouble are old BIOSes. Please make sure you have the latest BIOS release and try again... BB
Sergey Tolokunsky wrote:
Dear all,
Thanks very much for answering. I am using the TYAN S4882 motherboard with 4 Opteron 850 installed and 8 GB of memory. This board is equipped with the onboard LSI SCSI controller. The hard drives are plugged though it. No RAID is installed.
The board comes with the newest BIOS, available on the TYAN site: 1.02.
I am trying to install SLES 8 AMD64 edition. I have SP3 on the additional CD.
By the way, SLES 8 x86 edition does not start at all - it hangs immediately after the initial screen.
I have no problems with installing SLES 8 on 2-way Opteron systems, based on TYAN S2882 and TYAN S2881 boards.
-----Original Message----- From: Bodo Bauer Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:59 PM To: Sergey Tolokunsky Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] error while installing SLES 8 on 4-way Opteron
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:05, Sergey Tolokunsky wrote:
Hi, All,
I am trying to install SLES 8 on a 4-way Opteron platform. The
Which system exactly?
installation fails at the very beginning, just after it boots, finds some devices and has to show me the installation menu.
Instead, the installation displays the error message: "An error occurred during the installation".
If I switch between screens, I can find another error messages, such as:
"non-volatile memory driver v1.1" and "error -3 while decompressing".
On a 2-way Opteron system it installs fine.
The same system with 2 CPUs pulled, or a whole different machine?
Are there any suggestions? Has anyone tried to install SLES 8 on 4-way
Opteron? Has anyone tried SLES 9 on 4-way Opteron?
Yes we tested quite a few of them. A frequent source of trouble are old BIOSes. Please make sure you have the latest BIOS release and try again...
BB
Others have posted with install problems with too much RAM installed (both 32-bit & 64-bit SuSE), have you tried cutting down to maybe 1 or 2 GB of RAM onboard, just during the install ? Just a thought ....
Yes, I did. Nothing happened. -----Original Message----- From: William A. Mahaffey III Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:53 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] error while installing SLES 8 on 4-way Opteron Others have posted with install problems with too much RAM installed (both 32-bit & 64-bit SuSE), have you tried cutting down to maybe 1 or 2 GB of RAM onboard, just during the install ? Just a thought ....
On 5 Oct, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Others have posted with install problems with too much RAM installed (both 32-bit & 64-bit SuSE), have you tried cutting down to maybe 1 or 2 GB of RAM onboard, just during the install ? Just a thought ....
In general? or on Tyan boards? I had sles8 sp3 running on 8 and 16gig blades for awhile before upping them to sles9. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com [Red's watching TV] Red: "Oh! Gilligan screwed it up. He always screws it up! Why don't they just kill him?" -- That 70's Show
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:57:38AM -0700, mmarion@qualcomm.com wrote:
On 5 Oct, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Others have posted with install problems with too much RAM installed (both 32-bit & 64-bit SuSE), have you tried cutting down to maybe 1 or 2 GB of RAM onboard, just during the install ? Just a thought ....
In general? or on Tyan boards? I had sles8 sp3 running on 8 and 16gig blades for awhile before upping them to sles9.
Just with bad RAM or more DIMMs that the electrics on the motherboard can take at the configured speed. That's most likely also the problem of the original poster. -Andi
mmarion@qualcomm.com wrote:
On 5 Oct, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Others have posted with install problems with too much RAM installed (both 32-bit & 64-bit SuSE), have you tried cutting down to maybe 1 or 2 GB of RAM onboard, just during the install ? Just a thought ....
In general? or on Tyan boards? I had sles8 sp3 running on 8 and 16gig blades for awhile before upping them to sles9.
did you have all the RAM in place during the OS install ? That's what several others (including myself indirectly) have posted about ....
I tried various configurations. I replaced all memory modules with other ones, I tried to remove half of them - but that did not help. Actually, there are many memory tuning options in BIOS. Perhaps, I have to change some of them. But I am not sure. So I use the default BIOS settings. I have tried to boot from SP3 disk, but it does not help. -----Original Message----- From: William A. Mahaffey III Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:47 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] error while installing SLES 8 on 4-way Opteron mmarion@qualcomm.com wrote:
On 5 Oct, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Others have posted with install problems with too much RAM installed (both 32-bit & 64-bit SuSE), have you tried cutting down to maybe 1 or 2 GB of RAM onboard, just during the install ? Just a thought ....
In general? or on Tyan boards? I had sles8 sp3 running on 8 and 16gig blades for awhile before upping them to sles9.
did you have all the RAM in place during the OS install ? That's what several others (including myself indirectly) have posted about ....
On 5 Oct, Sergey Tolokunsky wrote:
I am trying to install SLES 8 AMD64 edition. I have SP3 on the additional CD.
Ah.. sp3 isn't something you install later. You need to boot off the sp3 disk, as it has an updated kernel and drivers on it. I'm not sure the exact order required for the cds, because I always use NFS installs. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com [Red's watching TV] Red: "Oh! Gilligan screwed it up. He always screws it up! Why don't they just kill him?" -- That 70's Show
On Oct 4, 2004, at 5:05 AM, Sergey Tolokunsky wrote:
"non-volatile memory driver v1.1" and "error -3 while decompressing".
Sometimes inditcative (the decompressing error) of a memory problem or problem with reading the cd. Or the CD itself. Same as other post.. when you say 2cpu works, same box with 2 pulled, or different box? Also, make sure you're using SLES8 sp3 at least. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com Drew: "Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?!" ==> Drew Cary Show
If I switch between screens, I can find another error messages, such as:
"non-volatile memory driver v1.1" and "error -3 while decompressing".
errors while decompressing sound like a memory or hardware problem. Does memtest86 for a day work? -Andi
Hi, We have a quad Opteron server with 32GB RAM running SuSE9.1, the server will be used by many users running application softwares. In order to better manage the computing resource, we want our users to submit their jobs to one of the OpenPBS queues. I wonder if there is a command/script or system tool I can use to limit the cpu time for all processes running in interactive mode? Regards Jyh-Shyong Ho, Ph.D. Research Scientist National Center for High Perfprmance Computing Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:37:34AM +0800, Jyh-Shyong Ho wrote:
Hi,
We have a quad Opteron server with 32GB RAM running SuSE9.1, the server will be used by many users running application softwares. In order to better manage the computing resource, we want our users to submit their jobs to one of the OpenPBS queues.
I wonder if there is a command/script or system tool I can use to limit the cpu time for all processes running in interactive mode?
ulimit -t and /etc/security/limits.conf -Andi
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