El 21/04/2013 02:04, "Basil Chupin" <blchupin@iinet.net.au> escribió:
On 20/04/13 06:17, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to install opensuse 11.2 on a machine running dual Opteron processors with 32GB (kfsn4-dre/sas) and the kernel hangs without any info after scanning disks.
"The kernel hangs.....after scanning disks."
What are those discs - how many, which brand, have they been formatted (and in which file system).
And how exactly does the kernel "hang"? You are able to boot the 11.2 installation DVD/CD right? but then the kernel "hangs"?
By this do yo mean that the whole process just stops and goes nowhere?
What video card do you have installed - is it a nVidia card?
I can see that with other distros also, it can boot the installer and even complete installation
To me this is suggesting the normal problem with the video card which has plagued oS for ever and a day when you have tried to install 11.2 :-( .
with mem=4096M but the system won't boot without that.
Sorry, but "Won't boot without" *what* exactly?
You don't make it absolutely clear but is the case that no matter which distro you have tried you end up either unable to install it or the OS won't run after it was installed?
Any distro will run in 4GB of RAM and even much less than that so RAM is not the problem.
openSUSE is well know for having installation hassles when there is a nVidia card installed which then requires for "nomodeset" to be entered on the kernel command line when the installation is being done, but if, as it seems that you are indicating, that other distros will not run even after they have been installed then the problem lies somewhere else.
You mention that your computer has "dual Opteron processors". Now this does not sound like the normal for-home-use computer. Is it a second hand computer - which may have been sold because it developed some unidentified problem?
And you did ask whether there may be......
Any ideas of what can be the issue?.
:-)
BC
-- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 KDE 4.10.2 & kernel 3.8.8-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia
Hi!, sorry if I wasn't clear. I can install OS and boot the installed system with mem=4096M. For the installation I also had to use "nomodeset vga=normal". These are second hand Rackable Systems half depth servers (GA around 2007/2008), 16 x 2GB memory modules and 2 x AMD Opteron 2350 on Asus KFSN4-DRE/SAS. Think of them as a whitebox servers or highend desktops. I ran memtest as suggested in the list and it complained, quickly. Given I have two machines exhibiting the same issue, I'm tempted to think it's a configuration thing. I'll have to look at memory timing parameters or whatever can be set at the BIOS. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org