Are you local? Bring it to an April installfest and let the geek squad crawl all over it. That's what they're for.
Dates and maps plus a HOWTO should be on the web site: http://www.kernel-panic.org/meetings/installfest/installfest-april-2007 There's another at That Technical Bookstore earlier IIRC. Have fun, On Tue, March 27, 2007 12:08 pm, Bill Richardson wrote: > 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 > -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
