Re: DG965ss

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Dr. Helmut G. Enders wrote:

> I tried an amd64 installation on an Intel DG965SS board with 8 GByte.
> The system is very very slow (installation more than 1 day.) and
> I got corrupt files from the net (e.g. apt-get update).
>
> I have read that this should be a Intel Bios Bug since version
> 1669 (curr: 1719), if using more than 4 GDB.
>
> Does anyone has sucessfully installed Debian amd64 on such a motherboard?
>
> If yes, I would like to know which BIOS Version and
> boot parameter (noacpi, etc.) you are using.
>
> thanks,
> Helmut               helmut@cybernetic-systems.de
>
>
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Yes,

Use the following boot option:

If using lilo:

append="mem=8832M"

Otherwise, just add mem=8832M for grub.

Then it will back to normal.

I wouldn't touch the BIOS updates unless this works for you, I tried 
updating the BIOS 2-4 revisions and none of them helped me for my 965 
board.

Justin.