On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 20:02 +0300, Alex Joni wrote: > that would be me..
Thanks A Lot For This! Yesterday I was trying to install the Dapper version of EMC on a new motherboard (Gigabyte GA-P35_DS3L) booting from a Compact Flash card in the IDE port (through a little adapter board). The BIOS recognized drives plugged into the IDE connector, but I couldn't boot Dapper, even from a CDROM drive, on the IDE channel. I think it's because the IDE connector is mapped to IDE channel 4, not 0 or 1 as is typical on earlier, less SATA oriented, motherboards. I was able to boot Dapper from CD over USB, but the Compact Flash drive wasn't enumerated as a device (/dev/hdx or /dev/sdx). Also, the System/Administration/Device Manager tool showed that most of the motherboard resources were of unknown type, so I obviously needed a newer kernel & modules! I burned a standard Hardy i386 CD and was able to boot from both IDE & USB with no trouble, and the Compact Flash card on the IDE connector was found(*) on /dev/sda (who would have thought that?) I installed Hardy to the Compact Flash card (no swap to prevent excessive wear) without trouble and was able to boot from it. The system has 2Gig of RAM, so performance seems good even without swap, although I haven't really loaded it up yet. I was pondering the extent of the trouble I would have to go through to compile a real time kernel for Hardy, when a wishful Google search for "emc2 hardy" turned up your beta .iso! I reinstalled using your CD and it seems to work just fine! I haven't done a lot of testing yet, but so far, so good! Thanks Again, Matt Shaver * - During by struggles to get Dapper to boot from the IDE port, I enabled something on the BIOS called AHCI. This seems to cause Intel (it's an ICH9 southbridge) written BIOS extension ROM code to run just after the POST. I don't know if this affects the enumeration of my IDE drive, and I haven't tried to boot with AHCI disabled yet. By my reckoning my IDE drive should be /dev/hdi, but it works as /dev/sda so I'm happy... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
