[PLUG] Intel MB woes

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Aaron Ten Clay wrote:
> Roderick A. Anderson writes:
>> alan wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Found it referred to from a search using Google.  Sad part is there is 
>> _no joy_.  Didn't work.  Even tried a 'noapci'.
>> Thanks for the clue.
>>
>> Rod
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> I've been building systems with Intel MB similar to that one for a while 
> now. I have no issues with Gentoo, but in trying to install Windows on 
> those boards I've run into a host of problems. My first guess would be 
> to check what mode the SATA controller is in. Intel's controller has a 
> couple of "legacy" modes to let Windows XP and older work.
> In the board's setup menu, under Advanced, under Drive Configuration:
> ATA/IDE Mode: if set to Native, represents SATA devices as SATA devices. 
> If set to Legacy, represents all devices as PATA to software, but I've 
> had problems with this setting.
> With the ATA/IDE mode set to Native, an additional option usually 
> appears: Configure SATA as: which has at least the options IDE and AHCI. 
> In my experience IDE shows the devices to Windows as PATA, but Linux 
> sees right through that. Windows pre-Vista doesn't understand AHCI, but 
> that's what I use as Linux has no problems with it.
> If none of this helps (ie. none of the mode combinations get the 
> installer to see your CD-ROM) maybe you can provide specific details 
> about which distro you're attempting to install and I can give it a test.
> -Aaron

Thanks Aaron.  I'll pass this along to Jim who is doing (trying?) the 
install.  Off the top of my head I remember Fedora Core 4,5,6; CentOS 5; 
and maybe a SuSE or two were tried.  The preferrance is Fedora Core 6.

I don't remember us trying trying these combination but there were a 
bunch.  I think the operative word might be 'similar'.

Thanks for the insight and suggestions.


Rod
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