[PLUG] Intel MB woes
Roderick A. Anderson
raanders at acm.org
Tue Jun 26 17:15:20 UTC 2007
Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Aaron Ten Clay wrote:
>> Roderick A. Anderson writes:
>>> 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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>>
>> Well I just gave Fedora Core 7's LiveCD a try (that's all the close
>> mirror had, or I would've used 6.)
>> Booting from both a SATA CD-ROM and an IDE CD-ROM both worked
>> perfectly. I even tried both run from RAM and run from CD with each
>> drive. This was on an Intel D975XBX2 but the hardware as far as the
>> disk controllers is very similar to the board you're using.
>> Perhaps it is a hardware problem, or perhaps Fedora Core 7 has a newer
>> kernel that supports the hardware better. Looks like this disc shipped
>> with 2.6.21, which is what I run under Gentoo. Although I have
>> successfully used Linux as old as 2.6.16 on this board.
>> Let me know if you want this disc. It's the KDE version, but I have no
>> use for it beyond this testing. Or if anyone else is interested, let
>> me know.
>
> Once again thanks Aaron. I'll pass this along to Jim.
And the the final solution!
linux all-generic-ide irqpoll pci=nommconf
Again thanks to all for the suggestions.
Rod
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