Re: [OT] Awardbios virtualisation setting
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:11:32 +0100 > John Horne wrote: > >> IF I enable the >> setting, save it, and then power off the PC, and then power-on/reboot, >> it seems to work fine (virtualisation is enabled) until the next time I >> reboot the PC. It is then back to being disabled. > > That sounds more like a symptom of the battery on the motherboard > being too weak to keep the settings if power is removed for a while. > You might try replacing it and see if the setting sticks then. > > (And why on earth do all BIOSes always want to disable this by > default? What on earth would it hurt to have it enabled?) > I could see it being the battery if he lost them when he did the power off, but he only loses them on a warm boot. Maybe a BIOS problem when doing a warm boot? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Awardbios virtualisation setting
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:40 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:11:32 +0100 > John Horne wrote: > > > IF I enable the > > setting, save it, and then power off the PC, and then power-on/reboot, > > it seems to work fine (virtualisation is enabled) until the next time I > > reboot the PC. It is then back to being disabled. > > That sounds more like a symptom of the battery on the motherboard > being too weak to keep the settings if power is removed for a while. > You might try replacing it and see if the setting sticks then. > Well it's possible I guess. However, the time between setting virtualization, power-off and reboot is a few seconds. The PC is usually left off overnight, and has no problems the following day with any other BIOS settings. John. -- --- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: [OT] Awardbios virtualisation setting
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:11:32 +0100 John Horne wrote: > IF I enable the > setting, save it, and then power off the PC, and then power-on/reboot, > it seems to work fine (virtualisation is enabled) until the next time I > reboot the PC. It is then back to being disabled. That sounds more like a symptom of the battery on the motherboard being too weak to keep the settings if power is removed for a while. You might try replacing it and see if the setting sticks then. (And why on earth do all BIOSes always want to disable this by default? What on earth would it hurt to have it enabled?) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
[OT] Awardbios virtualisation setting
Hello, I have been playing with KVM virtualisation under F11, and it has all worked fine. However, I am having a lot of trouble getting the 'Virtualisation' setting to 'stick' in the BIOS. It seems that by default it is disabled. If I enable it and then save the setting, the PC goes through a reboot, but not power-off, and the setting is disabled again. IF I enable the setting, save it, and then power off the PC, and then power-on/reboot, it seems to work fine (virtualisation is enabled) until the next time I reboot the PC. It is then back to being disabled. Does anyone know how to make the virtualisation setting permanently 'enabled'? It is an abit motherboard (AN-M2; socket AM2), and an AMD Athlon 64-bit X2 (6400 I think; the PC is at home and I'm at work at the moment). The BIOS is phoenix awardbios version 6.01 (again I think). I have checked with the abit web site, and I have the latest BIOS version for this motherboard. Thanks, John. -- --- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
