On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:44:04PM -0000, Paul Grenyer wrote: > Hi All > > I'm new around here and I'm hoping someone may be able to help me with a > problem I have. > > I recently bought a Shuttle SN45G > (http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=279), which has an "North > bridge - NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400, South bridge - MCP-T" chip-set. > > I have tried a number of different Linux distributions, but most of them, > including Debian 3.0, Slackware 9.1 and Gentoo 1.4 won't even boot from the > installation cd. I've managed to install Mandrake 9.1, but that failed on > first boot. I've installed Red Hat 9.0, but that refused to boot after the > first day. I've also installed SuSE 8.1, but that was horrible to use and > didn't appear to want to online update . > > As I said above I couldn't get Gentoo 1.4 to boot. I've also tried the > latest Live CD, but that won't boot either. Has anyone managed to get Gentoo > (or any other distribution) working correctly with my chipset?
I went through this when I got my new MB as well :) Try passing pci=noacpi to the kernel on boot. Do a search on forums.gentoo.org for 'a7n8x' which also has the nforce2 chipset and caused a bunch of problems. Hopefully the stock gentoo-sources kernel will update to 2.4.22+ which has support for that chipset. -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
