Well, it's quite surprising, but Linux is by order of magnitude more
sensitive to hardware stability. Memory errors, overclocking and such
may cause Linux to produce weird errors while Windows run smoothly. I
don't recognize this as a Linux weakness though, it just requires stable
hardware. Stable OS run on stable HW, it's that simple :-)
I know it's not helpfull, but I have no difficulties running 64bit
OpenSuse 10.2 on machines with lots of RAM. I've got several Core 2 Duo
Xeons with 32GB RAM with nVidia Quadro FX4500 graphic cards and I
haven't experienced any slowdown either during install nor everyday
work. They are by far the fastest machines I ever used (comparing e.g.
with 3.4GHz P4 with 4GB RAM). I've got 16 core Opteron with 64GB of RAM
and I've got no problems as well. There's no reason for 64bit OS to do
anything different with 4GB instead of 2,8 or 128GB.
The slowdown is most probably caused by your hardware/BIOS setup vs.
kernel clash. I don't recall exactly WHEN the "Loading drivers" takes
place but I can safely guess that the there is some looooong timeout
somewhere within hardware detection section. One example - I experienced
such pauses on several Intel workstations - it could take 3+ minutes to
detect SATA disks (well, it timed out on unoccupied SATA ports).
Different kernel, updated BIOS or even simple BIOS settings change might
help (or might not as well...). I would suggest to start with updating
the kernel (if possible) as well as BIOS (definitely, makes miracles
sometimes).
Cheers, Tosuja
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