Mark A. Garcia wrote:
Currently, I am attempting to install SUSE 9.2 64bit on a Dual Opteron 250 Sun v20z 8GB ram. I do not have a dvd-rom drive to boot from. I have an external dvd-rom attached via USB. But the bios is not capable of booting off the dvd-rom, only a floppy usb drive. So, I have opt'd to use the mini-install iso. When I boot off the CD I created, I get the menu for selecting "Installation", "Boot from Hard Disk", etc... and I have the F7 option as "64bit". I choose text-mode install. When I go forward with "Installation" I get a Kernel panic. Keep in mind, I chose text-mode install because I wasn't able to see anything while the system froze.
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I will report back later to see how well the install went, and whether I had to use the mem option going forward.
I have successfully installed and rebooted the server. It boots with mem=4000M in the menu.lst config. But when I change it to mem=8000M and reboot it hangs with a blank screen. No kernel panic and no output. Why is it not working with a full 8GB of memory? Cheers, -.mag