Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com wrote:
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
Finally got back to this machine last week. I installed 9.2 on the machine with only 2 GB of RAM. I updated to the latest kernel (2.6.8-24.11, which I was surprised to see was only posted on 17 January, which was after you told me that you tried the latest kernel, so I'm not sure which kernel you are actually running). I set my Adjust Memory option in the BIOS to Auto, put in the other 2 GB of RAM, and same thing. It gets to grub, but then the 3 keyboard LEDs flash and it's back to the BIOS. By the way, when I have only 2 GB of RAM with the Adjust Memory option set to Auto it boots fine. It doesn't boot, on the other hand, if I have 4 GB of RAM with the Adjust Memory option set to Auto, and pass the kernel mem=2G. The other option that we discussed was MTRR Mapping, which I have set to 'Discrete'. I don't see what else you are doing that I'm not. All other BIOS settings (with a few minor adjustments) are set to the default optimal settings. I am booting with acpi=off, although I've left acpi on in the BIOS. Does anything else come to mind? Thanks, Ken