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cse n00b
Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 3
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:18 am Post subject: livecd 2004.3 -- initial ramdisk fatal error |
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Sun E6500 24CPU/24GB memory.
livecd 2004.3 fatal error after booting gentoo-2.4-smp
"You do not have enough continuous available memory for such initial ramdisk."
(also same behavior with non-smp boot)
Note: livecd 2004.2 works fine |
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:59 am Post subject: |
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Do you see this before the kernel messages appear or at the time the initrd is attempted to be mounted? Also if you can post this to bugs.gentoo.org that would be great |
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cse n00b
Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 3
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:19 am Post subject: |
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Exact sequence: (note: {0} ok is open-boot prompt)
{0} ok boot cdrom
(messages about boot device ...)
(messages from SILO)
boot: gentoo.2-4.smp
Could not find any available memory for initial ramdisk
Fatal error: You do not have enough continuous available memory for such initial ramdisk.
Program terminated
{0} ok
I will also cross post this to bugs.gentoo.org.
Thank you for your time. |
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cse n00b
Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 3
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Once posted to bugzilla, I received the following response:
Interesting...
Basically the 2004.2 livecd uses a newer silo which is broken for newer boxes (blade 1000 for example).
And 2004.3 uses an older one which allows newer boxes to boot.
It's all related to the iso part of silo, so it doesn't affect boot from hard disk.
All i can recommend is to boot from 2004.2 and use 2004.3 stages, there's no problem with doing that.
We'll try look into it, but don't expect miracles just yet, since we don't have a E6500 to play with |
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