Im not really sure where to post this, but I hope to save some people time in troubleshooting the problem I had. Googling did not help until near the end, but that's a matter of asking the right question.
I bought a new motherboard, the Asus M2A-VM, and planned to install LFS on it. I quickly encountered a problem. I had gotten too close to the cutting edge. The LFS live CD and most distros will not boot on it. Most distros give a console shuts up kernel panic message, which apparently is due to an unrecognized NMI. I also got PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:14.0. Acpi=no, noapic nolapic do not help. When I tried running Fedora with the noprobe option, it complained that it could not find the SATA driver. The problem appeared to be the driver for the new AMD SB600 Southbridge chip. It handles PATA and SATA. I found that support for this chip did not appear until the Linux 2.6.20 kernel. The LFS live CD unfortunately appears to use 2.6.18, so that wont work for me. Fedora and Ubuntu wont work, although beta versions might. I suspect that when they offer new versions with GNOME 2.18, they will also use the 2.16.20 kernel. Suse 10.2 works but it has a problem setting video resolution for X Windows. Arch Linuxs latest iso will also boot. I think Ill try using Arch to build LFS. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
