"Martin K. Petersen" wrote:
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> >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> Keith> Did they see problems with SCSI controllers taking forever to
> Keith> scan the bus using UP kernels? I hit that on stock RH 7.2 with
> Keith> 440GX motherboards, booting the installer with the apic
> Keith> parameter works around the motherboard problem.
>
> 440GX is declared unsupported by most of the kernel developers since
> intel refuses to fix their broken BIOS.
>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
> mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com/
> SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
Yeah, maybe one day they'll at least acknowledge the broken IO-APIC in
i840 chipset. Anyone ever notice how they use ServerWorks chipsets on
their dual cpu server solutions, rather than i840? Sorry about the
off-topic rant, it's an old issue.
D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
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