I have a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 chip on an Asus P5B motherboard with 2 x 250GB WD SATA hard drives and 4 GB 667 MHz memory. On the motherboard are a Realtek 8129 gigabit ethernet card and JMicron JMB363 Serial ATAT RAID controller.
My objective was to set up a dual boot (Linux and Windows2000), RAID0 sytem. For Linux I have tried mainly Fedora Core 6 x86_64 with some forays using Ubuntu-6.10-alternative-amd64. Previously, I used RedHat 9 software RAID0, so initially decided not to use the onboard RAID. W2K was installed and then Fedora6 with the boot record on the 1st sector of sda (not in the MBR). I could not reboot either W2K or Linux. In an attempt to do a repair with the W2K install CD, the partition were damaged. Previously, with W2K and RedHat 9, the dual boot using System Commander worked fine. Somehow, Fedora6 software RAID screws up the W2K partition, so the dual boot was scratched. I could install Fedora6 with an rpm version (kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6), but not with linux-2.6.20 (computer locks at "Checking for dependencies of selected packages." ). Now the problem was that I couldn't activate the onboard Realtek ethernet card. The installation did not recognize it and I could not find linux drivers for it. Any suggestions as to how to get this box running ... free or hired? After 2 months, this installation is getting very old. Thanks in advance, Bill -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
