I have 1024MB of Ram. The make is: DDRRAM Corsair TWINX 320. Is it likely that the bios is messed up? I didn't fiddle with it and its a brand new mobo so the vendor is unlikely to offer a more recent bios.
--- Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:33:19PM +0200, Peter > Sheldrick wrote: > > Thank you very much! I couldn't wish for better > > replies! > > > > I now connected my SATA2 disc to a SATA connector > > although the mobo handbook advises against it. > When i > > start the installation with a cd made from > > sarge-amd64-2.6.12-netinst.iso available at > > http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/, i modprobe > > sata_uli and the installer detects my disc :). But > > when i try to format it, at one stage or the other > i > > get at least: > > "Kernel panic - not syncing: PCI-DMA: high addres > but > > no IOMMU" > > "Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing > interrupt > > handler!" > > the furthest i got so far was past the formatting > - > > installing the base system - but then one of the > > errors above occured. > > Knoppix detects the disc and i can mount it - but > > lsmod did not show sata_uli *puzzled*. > > So what do you guys recommend? Should i use a IDE > HD > > instead? Is it likley that this is a silly mistake > or > > some serious incompatibility where even if i > manage to > > install debian ugly errors are going to crop up > later? > > Well I haven't used the Uli chipset so I have no > idea how good/bad it > might be or how the support is for it (other than > support at all is very > recent in the kernel). > > How much ram do you have? > > I am surprised at the 'no IOMMU' message unless you > have 4GB or more of > ram and the bios is misconfigured and/or broken. > > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________________________ Was denken Sie über E-Mail? Wir hören auf Ihre Meinung: http://surveylink.yahoo.com/wix/p0379378.aspx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
