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.
There was some issue discussed earlier about nvidia and 2.6.13 kernels
which basically said to use the unstable (and up to date) version of the
nvidia drivers.
Did you try connecting the keyboard via the PS/2 ports?
I had the same problem with my MSI board until I did it.Enabling Legacy
USB support also works most of the time. I also found that sometimes the
USB keyboard won't be initialized between the time the BIOS is done
posting and until the linux kernel enables it making a mess of LILO but it
only seems to happen on a boot out of 2.
There are plenty of cases where a BIOS updates skip a version steps.
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