PowerEdge R710 + Ubuntu 8.04

[Stephen Dowdy]

Jason Carr wrote, On 06/08/2009 03:32 PM:
> I'm having problems booting off of the official Ubuntu 8.04 x86-64 media
> on a new R710.  While booting, I get the following error: "cannot find a
> valid memory map" and early panics.

Jason,

We had e820 memory map probe issues on R610 units with the initial release
BIOS on Debian Lenny.  With the BIOS update released a week or so ago,
Dell recognized and fixed that issue.  Whether the R710 has a similar BIOS
update or not, i leave for you to check, as i don't yet have any R710's
deployed.

Please post back if this solution works.  You'll possibly also need
to load the bnx2 firmware (non-free) unless Ubuntu includes that
(Debian doesn't by default)

--stephen

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