On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 22:23 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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.
I 2nd that motion (remove 2 GB of RAM), I am also on the SuSE AMD64 list & there are dozens of threads about people having install problems with
2 GB of RAM onboard during install. They have various recommendations
to get around it (noapic during install, others, I don't recall them all), but get down to 2 GB RAM or less seems to cure a multitude of ills during install.
OK. But here's the problem. What difference will removing 2GB of Ram make any difference once the machine is back up and running with 4GB of RAM. I would feel better if the PCI bus actually saw the card. I will try doing a few things tomorrow:
1) Try moving the 3Ware card from the 133MHz slot to one of the 66MHz slots and see if linux sees the card. 2) I will possibly try removing 2GB of RAM and see if things magically start working :) 3) I'll poke around in the BIOS some more and reread the kernel parameters list again and see if something obvious appears.