On 4/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I had a similar problem with a newer Asus motherboard that uses a JMicron controller for the PATA interfaces. These aren't supported in the kernel on the current LFS LiveCD. Alexander suggested I try the 6.3-pre1 version which has a newer kernel. I never got around to it, though, as I'd already moved on by then. Another approach that worked was to use the LiveCD from paldo (very similar to LFS). http://www.paldo.org/index-section-packages-page-livecd.html This also has a newer kernel, even in the stable version. It's not quite as nice as the LFS LiveCD and doesn't include the sources/jhalfs, obviously. The other issue is that it defaults to a Swiss keyboard/fonts on the console and there's no simple way to configure it prior to boot. If you go this way, be sure you're familiar with setfont and kbd utilities if you want US English support on the console. Finally, the Fedora Core 7 prerelease is working for me. This is basically Rawhide, though. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
