Looking at the thread about the Tyan 4882, and the problem with SUSE 9.2 and systems having more than 4 GB of memory... On Tuesday 11 January 2005 08:57, Joe Landman wrote:
Folks:
We are still having significant problems getting these quad boards with 16 GB ram to work with SuSE 9.2 pro. We have verified that they work using other distributions (RHEL, and a few others).
The default Suse 9.2 kernel has problems with machines with 4G or more RAM. The latest update kernel fixes this. Boot with "mem=2G" and apply the latest updates with YOU. Reebot and you are good to go. Works for me.
/peter
I tried taking memory out of my system to get down to 2 GB. 9.1 and 9,2 will now boot. However, updating to the latest kernel update on 9.1 (which it looks like you are already on), the system will still not boot with 4 GB or more in it. Booting 9.2 with 2 GB of memory in it, and updating to the latest kernel via YOU, then putting the memory back in seemed to work. I booted with 8 GB of memory. Haven't had much chance to run anything, but you may have the option of going back to 9.0 and the 2.4 kernel, or going forward to 9.2 to stay on the 2.6 kernel (or try installing just the kernel rpms from the 9.2 update on your system if you don't want to do the whole install) .... Kevin Gassiot Advanced Systems Group Visualization Systems Support Veritas DGC 10300 Town Park Dr. Houston, Texas 77072 832-351-8978 kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com