Re: 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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