Re: [suse-sparc] Problems booting SuSE 7.3 on SUN E420

From: Martin Herren (sputnik_at_on-the-web.ch)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 19:39:32 CEST

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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 19:39:32 +0200
From: Martin Herren <sputnik@on-the-web.ch>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Problems booting SuSE 7.3 on SUN E420

    "Reid, David" wrote:
    >
    > I am trying to load/install 7.3 on a SUN E420 which has two cpu's and 4
    > gig's of ram. I have 7.1 loaded already and I had to do the install with
    > the following boot command: yast1 mem=512M
    >
    > I have tried booting 7.3 from cdrom and I was hoping it would get around the
    > limited memory issue in 7.1. If I add not option to the boot command, it
    > comes back with an error:
    > Could not find any available memory for initial ram disk
    > You do not have enough continuous available memory for such initialization.
    >
    > I then tried adding the mem option to the manual and text boot selections
    > (i.e. text mem=512M and manual mem=512M) but I still get the same error.
    > Can anyone help me with this?
    >
    > I tried just doing a system update from 7.1 to 7.3 but it got errors on that
    > so it was not an option.

    take a look at
    http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-sparc/2002-Mar/0241.html
    perhaps it will be of some help...

    /Martin 

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