From 0cc975cf12e9e9df924fb17a63637f50b7021a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "kaf24@scramble.cl.cam.ac.uk" Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:43:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bitkeeper revision 1.451 (3f6cc9fd9UX_tFa6-8NKaC9OX-VNTg) README, README.CD: Expunge refs to nforce2 in the READMEs as it seems to work after all. --- README | 7 ++++--- README.CD | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 1b4cf6d7bb..0845291921 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -104,9 +104,10 @@ Hardware support Xen is intended to be run on server-class machines, and the current list of supported hardware very much reflects this, avoiding the need -for us to write drivers for "legacy" hardware. Certain desktop chipsets -such as nvidia nforce2 are not fully supported. Some can be made -to work by specifying 'noacpi' or 'ignorebiostables' when booting Xen. +for us to write drivers for "legacy" hardware. It is likely that some +desktop chipsets will fail to work properly with the default Xen +configuration: specifying 'noacpi' or 'ignorebiostables' when booting +Xen may help in these cases. Xen requires a "P6" or newer processor (e.g. Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Xeon, AMD Athlon, AMD Duron). diff --git a/README.CD b/README.CD index d3192f21c0..e8e731d2fc 100644 --- a/README.CD +++ b/README.CD @@ -256,10 +256,10 @@ Troubleshooting Problems If you have problems booting Xen, there are a number of boot parameters that may be able to help diagnose problems: - ignorebiostables Disable parsing of BIOS-supplied tables. This is needed - for some very unsupported chipsets (eg. nforce2). If you - specify this option then ACPI tables are also ignored, and - SMP suppirt is disabled. + ignorebiostables Disable parsing of BIOS-supplied tables. This may + help with some chipsets that aren't fully supported + by Xen. If you specify this option then ACPI tables are + also ignored, and SMP support is disabled. nosmp Disable SMP support. This option is implied by 'ignorebiostables'. -- 2.30.2