En 10/04/2007 12:09:34, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I’m 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 won’t work for me. Fedora and Ubuntu > won’t > 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 Linux’s latest iso will also boot. I think I’ll try using > Arch to build LFS. >
Have you tried Slamd64? it's based on slackware and worked good for me on a dual amd 64 setup. It's fine for a host to build lfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
