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@@ -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). @@ -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'. |