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Bug#522234: marked as done (debian-installer: Fails to boot on amd64 >4GB RAM)

Your message dated Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:14:53 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #522234,
regarding debian-installer: Fails to boot on amd64 >4GB RAM
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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20090123
Severity: normal

Hi,

  I am booting an amd64 host with PXE method, once i get to the first
screen i press 'Install'......

Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.

Aperture beyond 4G. Ignoring
Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
This costs you 64MB of RAM
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:14.0

<halt>

I had etch installed succesfully and BIOS was ok. When updating
linux-image from 2.6.18 to 2.6.26, .26 never booted on my system. I
guess the failure was related to this issue. I have tried newer kernel
versions, .28 and .29, compiled at home and linux-image from unstable
and it works fine.

Tracking this issue I got to the idea that having >4GB (my system has
8GB) does not leave space to allocate AGP devices.

If you need more info, testing or whatever, feel free to ask me for it.

Kind regards

-- 
 Héctor Orón

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--- Begin Message --- 
Hello,

2010/8/25 Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>:
> So, now we have 2.6.32 in d-i.
> Do you have a possibility to try, if this problem still exists?

I was looking to this bug yesterday and I was tempted to close it. I
have no possibility to test it as I still own that machine but I am
over a thousand kilometers away from it. Hence I close the bug, if
someone or myself hit it again, feel free to reopen it.

Best regards,
-- 
 Héctor Orón

"Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar
System, which one day will disconnect us."

-- Day DVB-T stop working nicely
Video flare: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100510.html

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