{"id":595,"date":"2007-04-07T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T14:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/04\/07\/linux-and-the-msi-7265-the-final-straw"},"modified":"2007-04-07T09:34:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T14:34:52","slug":"linux-and-the-msi-7265-the-final-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/04\/07\/linux-and-the-msi-7265-the-final-straw\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux and the MSI-7265, the final straw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/01\/28\/linux-and-the-msi-7265-motherboard\/\">before<\/a> on my battles with Linux and Core 2 Duos.    After waiting a long time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.org\">Feisty<\/a> to get closer to a release state I loaded up Feisty (after some initial install pains.   The alternate install CD recognizes enough to install but the desktop version doesn&#8217;t and requires a USB CD-ROM or something)&#8230; I hit the final straw my efforts to get to my ORIGINAL plan months ago of working with <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/KVM\">virtualization on Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n$ sudo modprobe kvm-intel<br \/>\nFATAL: Error inserting kvm_intel (\/lib\/modules\/2.6.20-14-generic\/kernel\/drivers\/kvm\/kvm-intel.ko): Operation not supported <br \/>\n$ dmesg | tail -n 2 <br \/>\n[  176.258182] kvm: disabled by bios <br \/>\n[ 1198.635777] kvm: disabled by bios \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the record I have:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A 2.6.20 based linux kernel that DEFINITELY supports kvm (Pending hardware)<\/li>\n<li>Definitely a CPU that supports extensions<\/li>\n<li>Enabled VT extensions in the BIOS<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What the hell?  I can only surmise it&#8217;s this stupid MSI-7265 motherboard that I&#8217;ve been trying to live with for the past X months.  In my past post I read in a review it is a no-frills motherboard that is &#8216;lean and mean&#8217;.   Well I&#8217;ve about had it with &#8216;lean and mean&#8217;.  Give me a stupid motherboard that isn&#8217;t brain damaged in the BIOS.  I&#8217;m going to start shopping for less sucktactular alternatives.  If anyone has recommendations I&#8217;m more than happy to hear any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before before on my battles with Linux and Core 2 Duos. After waiting a long time for Feisty to get closer to a release state I loaded up Feisty (after some initial install pains. The alternate install CD recognizes enough to install but the desktop version doesn&#8217;t and requires a USB CD-ROM or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1216,1215,1100,1217,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","category-gripe","category-linux","category-stupid","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}