On Thu, Nov 29, Stephan Hegel wrote:
> Michael Fischer wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote:
> >> ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to
> >> install. As it happened Ubuntu (7.0.4??) installed fine and I was
> >> content
> >> for a while.
> >
> > How exatly does one figure that out? If it has the Jmicron thing?
> I run in problems with SuSE 10.2 and the ASUS P5K motherboard. Here my
> notes I made at that time how I got it running:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Install notes for OpenSuSE 10.2 on a PC with Asus P5B / P5K / P5K-E board.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Possible problem with "Install-CD not found".
>
> Load the BIOS, pressing DEL just after power it on. Somewhere in the BIOS
> setup there should be an option for the JMicron drive controller("Onboard
> Devices" in the P5B BIOS menu). Set it to AHCI mode. Save and exit with
> F10.
>
> Re-start the installation process adding in the first boot menu the boot
> option:
> insmod=ide-generic insmod=pata_jmicron
>
> As of the JMicron chip: there should be an entry in the BIOS.
Yes, that's the thing from the opensuse Wiki (CD not found).
However, in my case, its a different motherboard, and the recommended
simple solution (use an SATA DVD drive) applies. The drives in question
are
DVD - Pioneer SATA
HD - WD SATA2
HD - WD SATA2
Michael, who is puzzled and will try burning and installing the 10.3 image
tonight...
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