Hello,
just for info:
some weeks ago we bought one computer with a ASUS P4P800-E motherboard, this week we got another charge of about 7 of them - same dealer, same components, same BIOS revision (1002 BETA 002). They have an onboard Marvel Yukon and an additional PCI 3com 905-C NIC,
On the old one, the unattended linux boot CD is working.
On the new ones (I tried three of the seven) it does not, it stops with the line:
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Sometimes I also get another line from ACPI: about some IRQ21 problems, sorry I don't have the exact string.
There is no change whether I enable/disable power management settings in the BIOS.
When I disable the Power Management in linux-2.6.8.1, hte boot CD is working, although it does not get any DHCP lease, but telling me:
info, udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started eth0: Could not reserve IRQ23 SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not supported debug, Sending discover...
No matter whether I plug in the network cable into the Marvel or 3com NIC.
although: when I enable all (and I mean all: ACPI 2.0, several tables etc.) power management features in the BIOS, it must re-try to get a DHCP lease about three times, but then it gets one (there is no "Could not reserve IRQ" error); the older computer gets the lease at the first try on the same network cable.
Finally it works at least :)
Is ACPI required for the unattended boot disk at all? Couldn't it disabled by default?
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Now I have the problem, that I have an USB keyboard attached, but the boot disk doesn't recognize it. Time to search for a PS/2 one.
Umm, no that's not that easy:
When I plug in a PS/2 keyboard to the computer (and leave the USB keyboard attached), I get the following line before the "Trying smbmount " line:
usb 2-1.5: new full speed USB device using address 3 input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Cherry USB-Keyboard]
These lines are missing when I unplug the PS/2 keyboard?! And, hence, the USB-keyboard is working only, when I have a PS/2 keyboard attached as well - that's funny ;-)
Bye,
-- Steffen Kaiser
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