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On Sunday 25 May 2008 17:02:07 Mike Doty wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> | I was poking around in my BIOS this morning and rediscovered a setting |
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> | to define the installed OS. I'd wondered about it some time ago and |
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> | then 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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Well, I tried it to see. At the next boot, one of the two drives in software |
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RAID-1 had two faulty partitions, and the whole physical disk seemed to be |
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the cause of numerous long timeouts and resulting failure messages during |
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boot. So I've put it back :-) |
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The problem could equally have been due to a dodgy disk, or even the SATA |
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interface on the motherboard. I'll have to keep an eye on it. |
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Sometimes an experiment results in a lot of work - in this case, multi-GB of |
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backup and restore, and I've still to found out why the rescue system, |
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which is on an ordinary IDE disk, won't boot. Too many coincidences for my |
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liking. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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