Bug 1927 - Dell Dimension 4600 suffers odd BIOS problem after rebooting from 2.6 kernels
Summary: Dell Dimension 4600 suffers odd BIOS problem after rebooting from 2.6 kernels
Status: CLOSED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Alias: None
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware
Classification: Unclassified
Component: i386 (show other bugs)
Hardware: i386 Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: platform_i386
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Reported: 2004-01-21 09:52 UTC by Bryan O'Sullivan
Modified: 2004-01-21 10:23 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 2.6.0
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Description Bryan O'Sullivan 2004-01-21 09:52:45 UTC
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Hardware Environment: Dell Dimension 4600, >256MB memory
Software Environment: Nothing unusual
Problem Description:

I have some Dell Dimension 4600 workstations that suffer a strange problem after
they reboot: the BIOS drops into "OS install mode", issues a notice that it is
limiting memory to 256MB, and forces me to enter the BIOS and drop out of OS
install mode before I can boot with the full complement of memory (typically 1GB).

Steps to reproduce:

Simply boot into a 2.6.0-test11 or newer kernel (I haven't tried older ones) and
reboot the system.  This happens reliably, 100% of the time.
Comment 1 Bryan O'Sullivan 2004-01-21 09:54:01 UTC
By the way, this problem does not occur with Red Hat's 2.4 kernels.  It seems to
be 2.6-specific.

See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99477 for another report
of the same problem.
Comment 2 Fred Lindberg 2004-01-21 10:17:16 UTC
For me, the issue was resolved by a BIOS upgrade:

http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/download/index.asp?
fileid=R68080&sid=&os=Windows_NT&searchtype=age

FWIW/ Fred
Comment 3 Bryan O'Sullivan 2004-01-21 10:23:49 UTC
Me too, as it turns out.

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