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Hello everyone, this is the first time I have ever tried an OS besides Windows. I am in the process of building a new computer and thought I would give this a try, the following is my set up:
Asus M3a79-T Deluxe motherboard with AM2 AMD Athlon 64 Duel-Core
Four one gig sticks Corsair DDR2 800 ram
Two PCI-E MSI 8600 GTS cards
Four 500 gig Seagate SATA hard drives, running one single RAID ready and three in RAID 5
Two SATA CDR's
One floppy drive
This is my problem I loaded Ubuntu 8.10 desktop-AMD64. It loaded great started right up downloaded all the updates and the driver for the video card and rebooted. After the reboot I get a screen that says:
Please enable IOMMU
No aperture memory hole
it will only take 64 MB
Well you get the picture, I have looked all through my manual and through my bois screens for anything on IOMMU and how to turn it on but found nothing. I also looked at other threads on this topic and am not sure if they would help me or not can anyone guide me through this and help me fix the problem.
Distribution: Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, Fedora, Red Hat, Puppy Linux
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An IOMMU is a device that will support mapping memory addresses. There is currently high-end branded server hardware that support this, but no desktop machines support IOMMU, AFAIK. An example IOMMU is the AGP and PCI Express graphics cards.
You can try to enable IOMMU as suggested above with the iommu=calgary in the /boot/grub/menu.lst kernel: lines.
You need hardware and software to support IOMMU. Above instructions will just turn on Linux kernel software support. Since current hardware support is limited to high-end expensive server most Linux distro does not enable calgary DMA address mapping with memory protection by default.
If you wish to turn off iommu to disable the warning messages you need to enter iommu=noaperture at the end of the kernel: line in /boot/grub/menu.lst as follows:
Okay, I am not sure how to get into the command line, can you help me with what I need to type in to get to the right screen.
I guess you know how to start a Terminal right ?
If not, try from menu: Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal (in Debian) That opens a terminal (console)
then type:
su
( Enter your password)
nano /boot/grub/menu.lst (This loads menu.lst file in the text editor, from where you can edit it)
The lines you want are at the end of this file. Make the changes. (Be very careful. You are changing the boot options! Your comp may not boot if you dont know what you are doing)
Save and Exit. Then reboot.
I am sorry, I should have told you that I am not able to boot into the OS. It sends me to a text line where I enter my username and password and then I get a line that has my username:$ at the end of it. I am not sure but it might be better to refomat and reload, any thoughts. If you need more information please let me know and I will post all I can.
You are surely able to load the OS if you say it asks for username and password. It is just going in command line or terminal mode rather than in GUI.
Just type
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