The stock BIOS on the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 sucks. The PXE option, at the very least, fails approx. 60% of the time, with no rhyme or reason. There is a newer bios available on the website, v1.2. Stock is v1.1. Once I manage to get the system to boot, however, everything seems to work fine.
I stuck with BIOS v1.1, and installed to an SATA drive (Seagate) and I never had the problems you are describing. I used the daily installer from amd64.debian.net/debian-installer on 9/21. -Andrew On 10/3/05, Peter Sheldrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > >
