> En 10/04/2007 12:09:34, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> Iâm 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 âconsole shuts up kernel panicâ message, which >> apparently is due to an unrecognized NMI. I also got âPCI: Cannot >> allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:14.0â. 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 wonât work for me. Fedora and Ubuntu >> wonât >> 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 Linuxâs latest iso will also boot. I think Iâll 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 > --
I'm not familiar with Slamd64. I'll take a look at it. I'll probably still try Arch to see how it does things. I did notice that it puts X.org into /usr instead of /usr/X11. I guess X.org changed its default location. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
