Mark Horton wrote:
Robert Brodén wrote:
Hi
we've been runing SUSE 9.1 pro on a dual opteron HP proliant server (6Gb ram, 3 disk raid) but when we try to install 9.2 it fails misserable. No matter what i select (safe mode, no acpi, normal whatever) i get the same result, the server deadlocks with no video in the end of the kernal load, before showing the language select dialog(no way to talk to the server except for powercycling...)
I have 8GB of ram and I had problems installing 9.2. I used mem=2048m (I think that was it) as a kernel option during installation. After install I did a kernel upgrade via Yast and rebooted. Then I removed the mem=2048m from the boot loader configuration via Yast and rebooted.
Now it sees all 8GB of ram and boots perfectly. You might try this.
Another work around is to use the web edition of Suse 9.2. The
2.6.8-24 kernel has issues with some configs*. The web edition uses
2.6.8-24.10 which seems to have no issues.
*I believe it's related to iommu and some scsi drivers. (aacraid, and
3w-9xx) The same configs worked fine with ide drives. I'm not entirely
sure what the issue was as I stopped debugging once I discovered the
newer kernels fixed it.
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