Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
On approximately Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:07:05AM +1000, Ian Tan wrote: I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with built-in Promise ATA/100 IDE controller, and so I happily bought a new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :) Actually the 2.4 kernel series has support for the mentioned Promise controller,I have been using it happily since the first day I could get my hands on one.
Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 19:09:10 -0800 Rob Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was planning on buying this board soon, so I'm interested in the possibly solutions. Let me see if I got this right... (1) Use the UDMA-66 controller. (2) Compile a kernel with the UDMA-100 support in it (either on another machine, or when using the UDMA-66), and boot from that. But if you have an empty system, how do you install debian? Are there docs on how to make an installation boot disk with certain modules compiled into the kernel? I recently rebuilt my machine using a Soltek SL-75KV2 motherboard, also UDMA 100 compatible. What I did was build a kernel to support the new board *before* I installed it, on the old machine and used the same hard drive in the new machine. I then used Partition Magic to copy over the partition to the new drive and everything worked perfectly. What I used was the 2.2.18 kernel source which I patched with the ide.2.2.18.12.09 kernel patch which I found at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/ I made sure I compiled in support for what was going to be my new system (as well as the old, for now.) When I built the new machine it supported my new drive at the correct ATA 66 mode, and the old drive at ATA 33. All the features on the motherboard were correctly identifies, as was the new AMD Duron 800 CPU. Another suggestion is to temporarily use a bog-standard IDE cable to the new drive - one which isn't ATA 66 compatible. This will force the machine to see the drive as, at most, ATA 33 and should work OK. Once the new kenel is patched and build you should be able to switch cables again. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000
Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
On Dec 27 2000, Ian Tan wrote: I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with built-in Promise ATA/100 IDE controller, and so I happily bought a new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :) I have this very same board and it works perfectly. Unfortunately, I don't have an UDMA/100 drive, everything works perfectly well other than that. I suggest you just plug your drive on the first (i.e., UDMA/66 controller), install potato, install gcc, ncurses etc, grab a kernel from your favourite kernel.org mirror and André's Hedrick patch from http://www.linux-ide.org/. Compile it accordingly and you'll be able to use the Promise controller. I have looked at the latest kernel -- 2.4.0-test12 and it doesn't seem to have any IDE options that are relevant ... These kernels *do* have support for the Promise controller. Have I overlooked anything? Does anyone have any ideas? Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
On Dec 26 2000, Rob Hudson wrote: But if you have an empty system, how do you install debian? Use the UDMA/66 controller instead and only then compile the kernel with the appropriate drivers. BTW, I have this board and it works wonderfully. I'm really happy with it. So happy in fact, that when I got it, I was akin to a child with a new toy. :-) Well, it is indeed a toy. :-) []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with built-in Promise ATA/100 IDE controller, and so I happily bought a new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :) However, Potato doesn't like my IDE controller and my hard disk is not detected, hence my system is paralised without a hard disk. (Well, I suspect that it is the unrecognised IDE controller that is the likely cause of fault, and hard disk will be detected if the correct IDE controller module is loaded into the kernel) I have tried the udma66 and the idepci flavors and none of them seem to work... I have looked at the latest kernel -- 2.4.0-test12 and it doesn't seem to have any IDE options that are relevant ... Have I overlooked anything? Does anyone have any ideas? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze
Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
i'd suggest looking here http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html compare what chipset you have to see if its compadible, if it is, i'd suggest trying to build a new kernel to boot with and see if that helps, if it's not listed then get another IDE controller ... nate Ian Tan wrote: I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with built-in Promise ATA/100 IDE controller, and so I happily bought a new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :) However, Potato doesn't like my IDE controller and my hard disk is not detected, hence my system is paralised without a hard disk. (Well, I suspect that it is the unrecognised IDE controller that is the likely cause of fault, and hard disk will be detected if the correct IDE controller module is loaded into the kernel) I have tried the udma66 and the idepci flavors and none of them seem to work... I have looked at the latest kernel -- 2.4.0-test12 and it doesn't seem to have any IDE options that are relevant ... Have I overlooked anything? Does anyone have any ideas? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:07:05AM +1000, Ian Tan wrote: I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with built-in Promise ATA/100 IDE controller, and so I happily bought a new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :) However, Potato doesn't like my IDE controller and my hard disk is not detected, hence my system is paralised without a hard disk. (Well, I suspect that it is the unrecognised IDE controller that is the likely cause of fault, and hard disk will be detected if the correct IDE controller module is loaded into the kernel) I have tried the udma66 and the idepci flavors and none of them seem to work... Hi Ian! There is a kernel-patch out in the net, and with the patched kernel you can create a boot-floppy and start the installation. Another possible solution (I did it that way) is to plug the HDD onto the other Controller. As long as you doesn't use more than one hard disks, there won't be any difference in speed, because a lonely HDD hasn't enough power for even an UDMA-66-controller. G'night! Stephen Rueger
Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
I was planning on buying this board soon, so I'm interested in the possibly solutions. Let me see if I got this right... (1) Use the UDMA-66 controller. (2) Compile a kernel with the UDMA-100 support in it (either on another machine, or when using the UDMA-66), and boot from that. But if you have an empty system, how do you install debian? Are there docs on how to make an installation boot disk with certain modules compiled into the kernel? On 20001227.0409, Stephen Rueger said ... On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:07:05AM +1000, Ian Tan wrote: I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with built-in Promise ATA/100 IDE controller, and so I happily bought a new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :) However, Potato doesn't like my IDE controller and my hard disk is not detected, hence my system is paralised without a hard disk. (Well, I suspect that it is the unrecognised IDE controller that is the likely cause of fault, and hard disk will be detected if the correct IDE controller module is loaded into the kernel) I have tried the udma66 and the idepci flavors and none of them seem to work... Hi Ian! There is a kernel-patch out in the net, and with the patched kernel you can create a boot-floppy and start the installation. Another possible solution (I did it that way) is to plug the HDD onto the other Controller. As long as you doesn't use more than one hard disks, there won't be any difference in speed, because a lonely HDD hasn't enough power for even an UDMA-66-controller. G'night! Stephen Rueger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Yay verily and was much work done, and several projects signed off. And there was much rejoicing. And QA came unto thy programming team and talked about having a post project dissection of 'what we could do better'. A great shadow fell across the land and the hackers fled into the darkest corners of the offices. -- Alan Cox
