Bug 158192 - can't allocate memory
Summary: can't allocate memory
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Stable GCC Snapshot1
Hardware: PowerPC Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: E-mail List
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-03-15 10:45 UTC by chip rom
Modified: 2006-03-15 12:05 UTC (History)
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Description chip rom 2006-03-15 10:45:19 UTC 
I have downloaded the PPC released version

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-ppc-GM-CD1.iso

and tried to install it on a eMac DV (slot loading) (a G3 with 64MB RAM).
The systems boots from the CD and then I choose "install" option. Then, the systems fails (only 3 or 4 lines are displayed) and the error is the following:

"Can't allocate memory for initial ramdisk !"

If I choose any other options (rescue or network) the same message appears.

Sometime ago, I have sucessfully installed the Linux PPC 2000 distribution.
Comment 1 Stefan Hundhammer 2006-03-15 10:48:32 UTC 
64 MB? Did you read the hardware requirements?
Comment 2 chip rom 2006-03-15 11:01:55 UTC 
I have already read it but I though that it could be possible to install the system , even suffering an extremelly low install process.
Is there any workaround to install the system in the hardware?
Comment 3 Stefan Hundhammer 2006-03-15 12:05:42 UTC 
If you don't need to change your partitioning, you can activate an existing swap partition from linuxrc. This will make the installation very slow, but eventually it will get finished. You will need a lot of patience for this solution. ;-)

From the installation CD boot menu, select "manual installation" and check the menu entries of "linuxrc" (the text based program that appears after the kernel is loaded).