> 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