I'm not having any luck getting SuSE Sparc Linux 7.3's installation CD booting on my Blade 2000 Anniversary Edition.
The list archives (http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-sparc/2002-Mar/0241.html) mention someone who managed to find a kludge for his E450 for this problem (booting Solaris first to initialize memory, then rebooting to Linux). Not a great solution, and didn't work for me since my system wants to power cycle when going from a running Solaris to "boot cdrom ...". I saw that the release notes say the Blade 1000 is supported (and Blade 100) but doesn't mention the 2000. Well, it's new, so I'm trying. The symptom: I try booting from the "ok" prompt with something like: ok boot cdrom /boot/vmlinuz64 mem=1024M initrd=/boot/initrd64.small SILO runs and the SuSE Linux/SPARC 7.3 menu displays, then Uncompressing image... 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 I've tried variations (smaller/bigger/no memory arg, no initrd arg...). I've checked through the kernel source & kernel mailing list archives to see if there is any particular limitation with the amount of RAM in a machine, but it's inconclusive where the limitation or problem lies. The system is a Blade 2000 Anniversary Edition with 8GB of RAM and 2 UltraSPARC-III+ CPUs. Any suggestions would be welcome, including "this just doesn't work" or "you need a newer kernel". I'd like to try a different distro, too, but none of the other sparc64 distros have an easy-to-try CD image (the Blade doesn't have a floppy drive). Thanks....Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ils.unc.edu/gbnewby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
