2007/10/7, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi had the smae problem on a dell with this chipset. Its not so much > the chipset, but that the dell has a gap in the numbering of devices > attached to it that the livecd cant deal with. > > The cure was to boot from a redhat 7 livecd and install from that. redhat7 is 32bit os, is is right?So I suppose you install a 32bit os in a 64bit machine.
> Worked fine. Also, dell has a "legacy" mode for the chip selectable in > the bios - install has to be done in legacy mode, which can then be > disabled when the new system is up and running on its own kernel. > But in my dell1400,I can't find any "legacy" mode? > google will help a lot with this one > > BillK > > Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > The chipset is ICH8. > > So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? > > I have install Red Flag.But it 's i686 but not x86_64,so I can't > > chroot from the Red Flag to install Gentoo. > > > > 2007/10/7, Hex Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, you probably have a recent chipset (blanking on name currently) > > > which > > > is recent such that support is not yet present in the linux kernel... > > > > > > > > > -- > > wcw > -- > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home in Perth! > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- wcw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
