[OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

[Kevin J. Woolley]

On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 02:34, "Edward Martinez" <mindbender_1 at live.com> said:

>       Hi,
> 
>      I suggest staying away from AMD Athlon 2 x2 series, because I have
> a system using the 240 series,  Openindiana, solaris 10,11 ex,
> opensolaris,etc do not work  due
>      to a bug in the CPU; the problem is  the screen gets flooded with
> the error: apic error interrupt on cpu 0 status 0 = 0, status 1 =4,
> after grub in infinite loop. not sure if that bug may of  inherited  to
> the *A**MD Athlon II X2 250*    cpu
> 
>   this is the bug report i filed  back in march :
> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15218

Hi Edward,

Thanks for the warning!  I haven't tried to run Solaris on that particular CPU (I'm an Intel sort of guy myself), but recommended it because Harry's existing system was AMD-based.

Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well?

Thanks again!

Cheers,

kjw