Hello, Not sure where to start looking, so I start with the program that threw the message. Not sure what information I need to provide or the preferred formatting. I did a BIOS update and now get an error message I never saw before. System seems to boot ok, run programs ok, access devices ok (SATA DVD, IDE HDD, SATA HDD, network, video, audio, USB, IEEE1394). But I don't think Linux knows my CPU (no friendly name for my AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+), and it can't see all my RAM (3 of 8GB). memtest86+ sees all my RAM, I think. Not sure if there's any other issues. Disks don't have proper file systems or OS installs on them as of yet. 2 discs were part of a RAID6 set of 4. 4xSATA HDDs and 2xIDE HDDs. Not sure if it's a BIOS setting, software problem, hardware newer than software, etc. I didn't notice the error message with previous BIOS version. Any pointers would be great. Knoppix v5.1.1 DVD on ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe with BIOS 1004. ======== Error message =======ISOLINUX 3.31 2006-09-25 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it ... isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F isolinux: See http://syslinux.zytor.com/sbm for more information. ===========================
Leif W wrote:> Hello, > > Not sure where to start looking, so I start with the program that threw > the message. Not sure what information I need to provide or the > preferred formatting. > > I did a BIOS update and now get an error message I never saw before. > System seems to boot ok, run programs ok, access devices ok (SATA DVD, > IDE HDD, SATA HDD, network, video, audio, USB, IEEE1394). But I don't > think Linux knows my CPU (no friendly name for my AMD Athlon 64 X2 > 6000+), and it can't see all my RAM (3 of 8GB). memtest86+ sees all my > RAM, I think. Not sure if there's any other issues. Disks don't have > proper file systems or OS installs on them as of yet. 2 discs were part > of a RAID6 set of 4. 4xSATA HDDs and 2xIDE HDDs. Not sure if it's a > BIOS setting, software problem, hardware newer than software, etc. I > didn't notice the error message with previous BIOS version. >It's very simple, you installed a BIOS with a broken El Torito stack. The fact that it boots anyway means that ISOLINUX was able to successfully guess how to work around it.> ======== Error message =======> ISOLINUX 3.31 2006-09-25 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to > wing it > ... > isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F > isolinux: See http://syslinux.zytor.com/sbm for more information. > > ==========================-hpa
Leif W wrote:> But I don't > think Linux knows my CPU (no friendly name for my AMD Athlon 64 X2 > 6000+), and it can't see all my RAM (3 of 8GB).The former is an indication that your BIOS doesn't support your CPU. For AMD CPUs, that is a Very Bad Thing with potentially catastrophic consequences. Run at your own risk. For the latter, it's probably because you're running a 32-bit kernel without PAE support on a 64-bit system. -hpa