[PLUG] Intel MB woes

[alan]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> 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?

Kernel boot option.  Tends to fix booting issues on some Intel 
motherboards.

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