Hi all, It seems that a BIOS downgrade solved the problem. I tried a few different BIOS revisions, the newer the revision the worse the machine functioned, strange. thanks, - brad On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:22:54 -0400, Aaron Haviland <orion@parsed.net> wrote:
brad wrote, on Aug 02, 2007 at 21:54 EDT:
Hi All, I recently got in a nice new 2.4GHz core 2 duo with a bunch of memory,
8GB.
I installed kubuntu i386 on it. To get use of the 8GB of memory i recompiled the kernel to enable high memory support, a.k.a PAE. When i booted the new kernel it saw all my memory, but it took 10-15 minutes to boot. i checked dmesg and it didn't seem to report anything out of the ordinary.
Then, I thought that perhaps the 64bit version of kubuntu might be a better option. I installed kubuntu 64bit. The install took two days because every step was extremely slow. Once the install finished, i rebooted and it took 10-15 to boot. I was seeing the same symptoms of the 64bit install as i was with the 32bit install with PAE.
I tried downloading the current kubuntu 64bit release as well as the beta of the next release. I'm also trying Fedora Core 7 64bit as i type, but that install is going just as slow. I hunted through the BIOS for any suspicious settings. I removed all the hardware except for the CD-ROM (to boot a live CD). I did searching through the interweb. All with no luck to solving this problem.
If anyone has any suggestions, they will be much appreciated.
keep cool, - brad
A couple (possibly) good leads in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/browse_frm/thread/830f835cc...
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