Hello Larry,Sounds like an io problem, try installing by passing the noauto switch.
I indeed saw several reports of ASUS A7M266-D running Linux on the net, which is why I bought an AMD bi-proc mobo in the first place: I was sure that it would work smoothly...
Very strange, this WD drive stuff. I also have a WD drive ! The 120GB model with 8MB of cache. But the same happens with my older IBM 10GB and my Fujitsu 40GB (just tested tonight for the Fujitsu)
I think my EEC settings are OK, I can choose between no EEC, detection,
detection+correction or something else that I don't remember. I tried no ECC and correction, it made no difference.
The processor is in socket 1, as recommended by MSI
I am now testing with a Redhat 6.2 CD (I didn't know Mandrake at that time :-) and it seems to work allright. That's a 2.2.14 kernel. I strongly suspect that something in the 2.4 kernel
has to be switched off, but I can't figure what... Any ideas ?
Thanks for your help !
Stephane
That is when installing hit F1 and "linux noauto" this will bypass the hardware detection.
G'Luck
Larry
I don't have the same motherboard but the AMD 768 works just fine on the Asus A7M266-D. On this machine I run 2x AMD2400+ with Matrox drives. Had a problem with one machine with the same problems installing linux, it was on a WD drive, it simply would not install.
You might double check your BIOS settings for the memory EEC settings.
BTW which cpu socket are you using? Not sure if it makes any difference.
???
Larry
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