Sun E6500 24CPU/24GB memory. livecd 2004.3 fatal error after booting gentoo-2.4-smp The following two messages appear immediately after typing "gentoo-2.4-smp" at the boot prompt. Could not find any available memory for initial ramdisk 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 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot cdrom 2.gentoo.2-4.smp 3. Actual Results: The following two messages appear: Could not find any available memory for initial ramdisk You do not have enough continuous available memory for such initial ramdisk. Expected Results: Using livecd 2004.2, kernel boots and works fine. I don't believe there are any hardware issues. The same box runs livecd 2004.2 just fine and Solaris 8 as well. I have been looking forward to experimenting with gentoo on a 24CPU/24GB box :)
Running openboot 3.2.30
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 ;-)
As far as i could delve it seems the older silo has problems when the machine has got 4+ GB of RAM. Can you try pulling out some processor boards until you've got 4 GB or less RAM and booting the CD? It wouldn't affect the final install since we use silo 1.4.8 for hard disk. Thanks.
Can't really fix this until a new working silo gets out. As i said you could do the basic install with the newer livecds by pulling ram out, or use the old one with newer stages too. Marking as LATER until that time comes.
