Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard
Hi
No success in entering BIOS. It seems that the "Intel(R) Boot Agent" should be eliminated, to get free of their PXE system. Does anyone know how to throw this agent away with Linux? The old amd64 installation is recognized on the new system. Though the original installation was for a dual socket machine, all new 875 CPUs are recognized by
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
so that I can expect to be able to clean things with the previous Debian amd64 installation, edit BIOS, and then reinstalling amd64 in order that all new hardware is properly taken into account.
What Intel suggests to eliminate their Boot Agent is to download a DOS program (subjected to property restrictions; curiously so because I want to get free of their intruding program, which let me think that individuals are not properly defended by the laws against intruders). DOS is something I am not familiar with and I don't want to get involved in. If not else I can't imagine how to get DOS on my amd64 installation. I am already irritated enough that to submit a letter to the principal journal of chemistry, JACS, one should have to deal with their Visual Basic macros, which require getting involved with Microsoft. I am also irritated by the Supermicro motherboard having a large portion dedicated to Microsoft to let them do raids, while I can better solve the problem with a software raid.
I have now submitted the problem to Supermicro Europe but I expect the same answer I had a couple of years ago from Tyan Europe: "We do not answer questions related to Debian Linux", although even then the problem was bnot such related.
Thanks for help
francesco
--- On Fri, 4/11/08, A J Stiles <deb64@earthshod.co.uk> wrote:
> From: A J Stiles <deb64@earthshod.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Date: Friday, April 11, 2008, 10:00 AM
> On Friday 11 Apr 2008, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > The new system launches Debian Linux amd64 etch
> present on the disks.
> > Before installing Debian amd64 anew, I wanted to
> configure BIOS. Unable to
> > enter BIOS. What is entered is Intel(R) Boot Agent.
>
> Last time I worked on a Supermicro mobo, it was the usual
> DEL for BIOS setup.
>
> On some of the oddball machines I've seen, placing a
> large, heavy book on the
> keayboard (so all the typing keys are held down!) sort-of
> works, either by
> stopping the POST with a keyboard error or because the
> right key was held
> down (along with several wrong ones!)
>
> --
> AJS
> delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk
>
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