Lee Thompson wrote:
Trying to go from BIOS "v1.8" -> "v1.B" in preparation
for a dual core upgrade I ran into kernel hangs
initializing the SATA boot drive (libata).
As Duncan predicted, Knoppix and the 2005.1 LiveCD
booted clean as did a fresh install of 64 bit RH AS4.
I got Gentoo working by downgrading to kernel version
2.6.9-r9.
So, the old BIOS works with all versions of the kernel
going back a year. The new BIOS doesn't work with
kernel 2.6.11 and 2.6.12.
Anyone familiar with the recent changes to libata or
nv_sata drivers?
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Same board. Same BIOS upgrade (1.8 to 1.B). I got 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 to
work, but I'm not using SATA so I can't speak to that. But I couldn't
get the nvidia-kernel module to load. I had to upgrade to the latest
unstable version to get it to work at all. But then I discovered I
couldn't even get into the BIOS menu because the keyboard wasn't
initialized until after it had stopped listening for the DEL keystroke.
I downgraded back to 1.8 and now it won't POST!
Note that the versions released went from 1.8 to 1.9 to 1.B. The fact
that 1.A is missing from the lineup makes me wonder if they were having
serious problems with it and decided to pull it. Maybe 1.B still has
some of those problems.
My ($10) replacement chip is slated to arrive today. I've had to get by
with Knoppix on a Windows box for nearly a fortnight. And this was in
the middle of my exams!
I'm half tempted to buy a chip programmer so that this can't happen
again. And if they release any more shoddy BIOS versions, I'd be
tempted to avoid MSI.
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