Re: Fighting some install issues with a new box -- last possibility, memory size ...

[b.j.smith at ieee.org (Bryan J. Smith)]

One last possibility.

When the first Opteron mainboards came out with the AMD8131 tunnel, Tyan
had an issue when 4GiB of RAM was used.  They recommended you enable the
memory hole.

That issue should be _long_removed_ in the S2895, but it probably
wouldn't hurt to enable any memory hole (above 3.65GiB), or actually
remove 2GiB of RAM and see if it sees the card and its firmware in the
BIOS (as well as Linux).

If so, get Tyan on the phone.  You should _not_ be seeing that.


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Bryan J. Smith                                     b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx 
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