I got CentOS5 and Fedora7 to install on MSI P965 Neo motherboard. IDE cd/dvd rom drive, and sata hard disk on the jmicron sata port (not the intel ich8 ports). If I plug the sata hard disks on the ich8 ports, the installer won't detect it, even with all_generic_ide option. Actually if I set all_generic_ide, it will just hang (or take a very long time to detect drives). After installation completes, transfer sata disk to ich8 port (boot loader won't detect the drive if its still in the jmicron sata port).
A better solution would be to get SATA cd/dvd rom drive, in the bios set Integrated Peripherals > On-chip ATA devices > IDE/RAID control to "disabled" (turns of jmicron), and all drives plugged in the ICH8 ports. Is there an MSI P965S? I think theres only P965 Platinum and P965 Neo. On 7/12/07, plug bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone (successfully) installed any linux distro > on mobos with the embedded ICH8/ICH8R SATA controller? > We recently ran into this problem after purchasing a > few MSI P965S boards. > > We used CentOS 5.0 for the test installation. It is > able to load the ata_piix driver upon startup, but > after that the installer claims that it couldn't find > any compatible hardware. We also tried manually > selecting and loading the AHCI driver, but with the > same result. > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. > Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Marie Charisse L. Gascon http://www.chasys.net _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
