Anaconda is not able to install when the system has more than 2TB of memory

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Issue

  • RHEL 6 Installation on a IBM Power 7 systems stops with the following message
You do not have enough RAM to install Red hat Enterprise Linux on this machine.

Environment

  • IBM PPC P780 type 9117-MMD
  • 4 TB of RAM
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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