Frequently Asked Questions - Hardware Compatibility
- Opteron with the Nvidia network (forcedeth) chip
There have been significant problems reported with the Nvidia chipset on the AMD/Opteron boards primarily around the "forcedeth" kernel module.
We have had reports of generally 2 failures:
- System reboots when kexec is called
There have been several reports that when kexec is called, the system doesn't boot the VNFS's kernel, rather it just reboots. This seems to be an incompatibility between kexec and the hardware configuration of the system. If this happens to you, send a detailed configuration to the maintainers of Perceus and we will follow up with the kexec maintainers.
Here is a list of some things to try before contacting us with a bug report:
- Run a memory test
- Try enabling the memory option for node interleaving in the BIOS configuration if your system supports that option.


