Da Rock wrote:
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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:43:37 +0000
From: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: slow (s-l-o-w) install
Now I'm trying to install F8/x86_64 on it, and the installer is running
amazingly slowly. It took about ten minutes before the initial graphical
Probably wrong memory caching in the BIOS. That's a common cause of those
symptoms. If so boot with mem=2G or be patient and once you've got it
installed take a look at /proc/mtrr and that will show which memory the
system marked as cached. If its wrong then you can tweak the settings
and/or beat up the BIOS vendor
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Is this a known fault? Is it documented? If so it may have saved me a lot of diagnostics...
It's a known limitation of some BIOS versions. I suspect it would happen
with that other O/S as well, actually.
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