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