The new Intel Purley based Intel Server Boards S2600WF, S2600BP, and S2600ST Product Family use a new BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) video subsystem.
As a result, some operating systems, mostly *NIX based, will choke on install as they may not have the driver built-in.
That document point's to ASPEED's site for downloading an up to date driver that fixes the problem.
Root Cause
Full root cause of this issue has been determined. Intel has confirmed that the failure has no bearing on system performance, it only impacts local video graphics. In detail, when the operating system loads, the OS-embedded ASPEED* video driver is not able to access a portion of the BMC memory space, therefore the process stalls.
On Windows Server based configurations we need to update the driver once the OS is installed. The default VGA driver that comes built-in to the OS works just fine.
Philip Elder
Microsoft High Availability MVP
MPECS Inc.
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book
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