Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y for x86_64 SMP kernels

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:38:16PM -0400, Peter Arremann wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 14:28, Stephen J Smoogen wrote:
> > > Since the K8D_Master-F MB would no longer POST, we swapped in a Tyan
> > > 2885 with the below HW.  The good news is that we're not having any
> > > memory recognition problems.  The bad news is that we now have an
> > > annoying but otherwise harmless boot situation which is:
> >
> > Sounds like crap hardware. I heard of something like that before.. it
> > was 'fixed'  with a 'BIOS' update..
> A friend of mine is running 2 systems with that board without issues.
> So its either a outdated/buggy bios as previously suggested or you got yet 
> another bad board in front of you...

Likewise my 2885 is rock solid out of the box with FC2