Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition Pre-Sp1 May Hang During Installation With More Than Eight Logical Processors; Linux Oses May Not Correctly Report The Total Amount Of Available Memory If The Bigsmp Kernel Is Not Used During Installation; Linux Oses Will Kernel Panic At Startup When 64Gb Of Main Memory Is Used For The Installation; 7.19 Mouse Is Not Usable In Lsi Logic Webbios Configuration Utility - Intel SE8500HW4 Hardware Manual

Installation Guidelines
Guideline: Use the newly released driver; 9.1.0.11.
Status: This is resolved with the new driver.
7.16 Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition pre-SP1 may hang
during installation with more than eight logical processors
Issue: During pre-SP1 OS installation, with four Dual-Core Intel
7000 sequence, chipset interrupts may go un-serviced due to the OS and
hardware not being in sync.
Guideline: Ensure Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP1 is used for the
installation. Alternatively Hyper Threading may be disabled in BIOS during the
OS install and re-enabled once completed.
Status: There is no fix is planned for this issue.
7.17 Linux OSes may not correctly report the total amount of
available memory if the BIGSMP kernel is not used during
installation
Issue: If any Linux OS is installed using <4GB of main memory and later upgraded to
>4GB it will not correctly show the amount of memory available.
Guideline: To avoid this issue use the kernel parameter acpi=BIGSMP during installation
regardless of the amount of memory currently installed.
Status: There is no fix planned for this issue.
7.18 Linux OSes will kernel panic at startup when 64GB of main
memory is used for the installation
Issue: Any Linux OS will kernel panic at startup if 64GB of main memory is used
because there is not enough PCI address space available to initialize the OS.
Guideline: Add the kernel parameter "swiotlb=8192" or install with less memory.
Status: BIOS P07 will have a BIOS setup option to increase the size of the PCI address
space. The default for this option will be 2GB which resolves the issue. Red Hat
and SuSE will release a fix in a future release.

7.19 Mouse is not usable in LSI Logic WebBIOS configuration utility

Issue: Mouse is not usable in the LSI Logic WebBIOS configuration utility <CTRL H>
because it is not supported by the system BIOS.
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