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.