[PLUG] Intel MB woes

Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org
Thu Jun 21 23:21:18 UTC 2007


alan wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> 
>> We just got a system with an Intel BLKDG965RYCK main board.  Can't get 
>> it very far into the install process.  It keeps asking for an device 
>> to install from.  This is with every Redhat-ian distribution we can find.
>>
>> A Samsung DVD/CD Writer on the IDE controller and every conceivable 
>> combination or hard drives.
>>   Started with a SCSI host adapter (Adaptec), went to a SATA drive 
>> connected to the on board controller, finally a plain old IDE drive on 
>> the IDE chain with the DVD/CD drive.
>>
>> We have also tried a simple 52X CD ROM drive and that too went 
>> horribly wrong.
>>
>> Anyone familiar with this MB?  Any joy installing Linux on one?  It's 
>> beginning to feel like a hardware issue.
> 
> Have you tried booting with "noapic"?
> 

Don't remember seeing this option (and it's all a blur right now :-)? 
BIOS setup or boot option?


Rod
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