Hey Mark,
If I limit the mempry to < 8 GB, and 4 cpus, the system will boot, but
it cannot load the network devices. I get the "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or
resource busy" message when the network trys to start and load the tg3
drivers. I have varying degrees of success (or failure :) depending on
whether the MTRR settings are Discrete or Continuous, and Memhole Mapping
is Disabled. Haven't had much luck this afternoon trying to load the OSS
version of Suse 10, either. Booting "noapic module=sata_nv mem=4096M
maxcpus=2" starts the install, but I can never get the Ethernet devices to
come up...
And yes, the errors seem to change depending on the amount of memory I tell
the system to use, so there may be a problem with the big memory (though I
think I had Suse 9.2 running on an 8-way 128 GB machine with the IWILL
motherboard/daughterboard combo with no graphics. I need the graphics,
though :(
Thanks,
Kevin
Kevin Gassiot
Advanced Systems Group
Visualization Systems Support
Veritas DGC
10300 Town Park Dr.
Houston, Texas 77072
832-351-8978
kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com
"Langsdorf, Mark"
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com [mailto:Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:08 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] TYAN 8-way and Suse Linux 9.3 ?
I have an TYAN (S4881/B4881) 8-way system with 128 GB of memory anthat I am trying to load Suse 9.3 (or 9.2, or RHEL 3 Update 5) on. I cannot get the system to install with the 64-bit install. It always fails on trying to mount the root disk. However, the 32 bit installation goes with no complaints. Only problem, is it loads the i586 bigsmp kernel, and DHCP, USB, etc. don't work. Anyone been successful in getting this beast to load ? I have tried noapic acpi=off module=sata_vm mem=2048M...
Thanks, Kevin
Kevin Gassiot Advanced Systems Group Visualization Systems Support
Veritas DGC 10300 Town Park Dr. Houston, Texas 77072 832-351-8978 kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com
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