Linux install on GA-880GMA-USB3(rev. 3.1) with AMD FX-8150

[freefall]

Just thought I would share some insight on issues I have had when installing various Linux distros on a computer with a GA-880GMA-USB3(rev. 3.1)motherboard and AMD FX-8150 processor. Using the instructions provided by Gigabyte it was impossible to install Ubuntu 11, CentOS 5 and Gentoo 12. It turns out some issues arise with either the Advanced Host Controller Interface (ahci) or most probably the Advcanced Configuration and Power Interface (acpi). To get any of these distros to boot I need to add the following boot time options: noapic, nolapic and noahci.
This would lead the OS to seeing only one core in the cpu though.

In gentoo I was getting following message before the boot process would freeze: ACPI Warning: Incorrect Checksum in Table [TAMG] (20110623/tbutils-314) - 0xD2, should be 0xD1. It would in fact freeze when loading the achi module.

Finally another workaround for all this was to disable AMD C1E Support in the Bios. No need to add any boot time options and all cores are seen!

The system has the latest bios off the gigabyte website (F4C, still BETA?) and 16GB of corsair RAM. No overclocking.

Any ideas why this might be happening?
Thanks!

[autotech]

Thank you for sharing that someone else might have that problem and now they have a way to solve it.
Dont know why C1E would cause that except it is a power saving feature which i turn off first thing when i get a motherboard or update bios. I always turn of any power saving feature and there are 2 or 3 of them on every board.

[chuz41]

Hi, I have the same problem with my computer,I have a GA-880GMA-USB3(rev. 3.1)motherboard and AMD FX-8150 processor.

I was getting following message before the boot process would freeze: ACPI Warning: Incorrect Checksum in Table [TAMG] 0xD2, should be 0xD1  -(20110623/tbutils-314) .

I have the latest bios off the gigabyte website F4C and 8GB of corsair RAM.

I realy need get ubuntu in my system,
Any ideas why this might be happening?
Thanks!

[elgregor]

Thank you, it just helped me.  
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1007508?comments=all

[elgregor]

Also I think that this info regarding "Incorrect Checksum in Table [TAMG]" message might be helpful:

This checksum warning seems to be common on Gigabyte motherboards with the TAMG
table. Gigabyte motherboards seem to have another table, UCCA. Both TAMG and
UCCA are not defined by the ACPI specification.

Source: http://www.mail-archive.com/acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net/msg35993.html