Demo-CD : Not enough memory

[To-M]

Try to disable any Video memory that could be subtracting from the total base of 512MB or add additional memory. I recommend 1GB for any testing especially when using Backup, Snapshot and other features of our products as with any OS it can help.

[mathieu]

Hello,

Yes, i could understand the problem if i were doing memory consuming tasks like a backup or a snapshot as you say...
But i'm just trying to boot from the demo CD-Rom and to launch the system, i haven't seen the console yet !?!
It just starts booting vmlinuz, then display the error message, and that's all.

Do you really think it is due to a lack of memory ?

Thanks,
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Mathieu

[amadeus]

i've got exactly the same problem....
i don't think is for a lack of memory
i think 512 mb is enough to boot almost the configuration page, dont'you?

[To-M]

Typically this Error message “:ERROR: Not enough memory”, from many customers contacting me on support, asking this question about this error, I find out that even though on our product requirments that we require 512MB, sometimes the motherboards built in video will take from this. Can you tell me if the motherboard is subtracting from this (16, 32 or 64)???
Also try after POST, enter the Escape key to see if you can get into a basic menu and select Rescue mode.

But if possible can you add some additional memory just to test or test with another system board (also disable any power management features) ??

[mathieu]

Hello,

After adding one more DIMM in the test computer it is ok, no more error message.
I'm just surprised to see a Linux system needing at least 512Mo just for booting...
Anyway it works.

Thanks Todd

[To-M]

Can you tell me how much you added or did you change the motherboard BIOS video settings?

Sorry guys, but if we don’t require it when starting the system we would be inundated with support calls when utilizing other functions later (we standardized on this from past issues -DSS we require 1GB), better to require it up front now then later when you have issues.

Profuse apologies on the added cost! Thanks for working with me on this.

[mathieu]

Hello,

Well, i didn't try to change the video memory setting in the bios, i just added a 512Mo DIMM, so i reach 1Go RAM on my test computer.

Finally, i thinks it is not a big problem really, first because RAM dimm's are cheap this year, second because my production server has 2 Gigs, and last, i don't see serious file servers with less that 1Go. (And NAS-R3 is for serious file servers... no ? )
Maybe you should just specify in the server requirement that 768Mo is a minimum if the video card make use of shared memory.

Thanks again.