On Saturday 12 April 2008 08:58:59 Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hi > No success in entering BIOS. It seems that the "Intel(R) Boot Agent" should > be eliminated, to get free of their PXE system. Does anyone know how to > throw this agent away with Linux? The old amd64 installation is recognized > on the new system. Though the original installation was for a dual socket > machine, all new 875 CPUs are recognized by > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > > so that I can expect to be able to clean things with the previous Debian > amd64 installation, edit BIOS, and then reinstalling amd64 in order that > all new hardware is properly taken into account. > > What Intel suggests to eliminate their Boot Agent is to download a DOS > program (subjected to property restrictions; curiously so because I want to > get free of their intruding program, which let me think that individuals > are not properly defended by the laws against intruders). DOS is something > I am not familiar with and I don't want to get involved in. If not else I > can't imagine how to get DOS on my amd64 installation. I am already > irritated enough that to submit a letter to the principal journal of > chemistry, JACS, one should have to deal with their Visual Basic macros, > which require getting involved with Microsoft. I am also irritated by the > Supermicro motherboard having a large portion dedicated to Microsoft to let > them do raids, while I can better solve the problem with a software raid. > > I have now submitted the problem to Supermicro Europe but I expect the same > answer I had a couple of years ago from Tyan Europe: "We do not answer > questions related to Debian Linux", although even then the problem was bnot > such related. > > Thanks for help > > francesco
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