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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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| I was poking around in my BIOS this morning and rediscovered a setting to |
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| define the installed OS. I'd wondered about it some time ago and then |
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| forgotten about it. |
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| I can set the BIOS setting "OS Installation" to "Other" or to "64bit |
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Linux |
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| 2.6.9". I have it set to Other at the moment. My questions are: what |
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effect |
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| this setting is likely to have, and whether it's really specific to the |
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| version. |
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| This is a Supermicro H8DCE motherboard with dual Opteron 246s and 4GB |
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RAM in |
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| four banks, two connected to each CPU. |
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| I've tried Google but found nothing. |
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Supermicro would be able to tell you. It most likely affects boot order |
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and/or ACPI tables/features. |
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Mike Doty kingtaco -at- gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Infrastructure |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Strategic Lead |
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