I don't exactly remember which BIOS revision of the M2N32-SLI Deluxe has
issues... but at the time I was running Gentoo and the Gentoo boards
contain a good deal of information about motherboards. Once Asus
released a good BIOS for it, I dropped Xen 3.0.2 on it and left it alone.
Asus does not exactly have a reputation for good BIOSes...they have been
known to release a new BIOS to fix something only to break something else.
I also had an A8V motherboard (socket 939, VIA K8T800Pro chipset) that I
used for about a year with a 2.6 kernel. The M2NPV-VM boards (microATX)
also seemed to work (at least with the Xen 3.0.0 or 3.0.1 LiveCD which I
was using to test APIC issues on the M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard).
(We've developed a familiarity for the Asus AM2 motherboards, so they're
the primary choice for us on the workstation / desktop side. Plus they
have zero moving parts and a decent feature set.)
I have seen a recommendation for Abit AM2 motherboards that did not need
any kernel parameters...actually I pressed for the information which the
chap was nice enough to post after his going out of the way to test
while he had another problem (using fourth RAM slot). :D
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