On Thu, April 13, 2006 6:17 pm, Hadley Rich wrote: > Hi list, > > I just replaced a fried server with a Mini-ITX board and can't seem to > boot > it. > > I initially just shoved the drive from the old PC in and went to boot up > as I > have done many times before. Grub came up and I made my selection, > immediately after the boot line the machine reboots. > > I thought that was odd, so tried a SLAX live CD and get the isolinux > prompt > and the same reboot after unpacking the kernel. Same deal with a Arch > Linux > install disc. > > After a bit of looking I found an old Windows CD which boots fine so it > seems > to be a compatibility problem with Linux and not just a fault :( > > I have tried passing acpi=off to the boot line with no result and looking > through the BIOS I can't seem to find anywhere to turn ACPI off at all. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look next? All my google > searches bring up dual boot articles etc. which aren't much help. > > Cheers, > > hads
I have a mini-itx M9000 board which works fine in linux. Howeevr it _is_ i586, not i686, so if you have a kernel that is compiled for i686 it will give problems. Thats all I can think of now. Does the mini-itx work with some other random OS installed? > > -- > QOTD: > "The baby was so ugly they had to hang a pork chop around its > neck to get the dog to play with it." >
