On Don, 2007-11-08 at 09:31 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:31:56AM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: [...] > > That reminds me of a TYAN mainboard (Toledo i3100/S5207, Intel E6600 CPU > > on it IIRC[0], Ubuntu + self-compiled kernel on it IIRC[0]) bought in > > March 2007 which ran fine with 4GB but didn't even boot[1] with 8GB RAM > > (and RAM is on their "recommend RAM" list for that board) and stopped > > with an BIOS error not mentioned in the manual. > > The third BIOS update - to a "beta" version - (since March) seems[1] to > > make it work now. > > You would think board makers SHOULD test the bios with every OS out > there not just the most popular one. Even testing with 64bit vista and
Well, since the mainboard does not even try to load the boot loader, I consider that above a pretty OS-independent problem/bug. I would think they also put the max load of RAMs (at least for the recommended ones) into their mainbords and boot it with anything. > the ram maxed out on the board would catch many bugs (like the MTRR bugs > in intel bioses on the majority of their current boards). Yup. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]