Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 PPC installation fails with the message "ERROR: claim of 0x100000 at 0x1f80000 failed"

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Issue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 PPC installation fails with the message "ERROR: claim of 0x100000 at 0x1f80000 failed"

    Welcome to the 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 installer!
Hit <TAB> for boot options.

Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.17 (Red Hat 1.3.17-7.el7)
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
boot: linux
Please wait, loading kernel...
   Elf64 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
ERROR: claim of 0x100000 at 0x1f80000 failed
Claim failed for initrd memory at 01f80000 rc=ffffffff
ENTER called ok

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
  • PPC installation

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