On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:16:04 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote:
> I've got a GA-965P-S3 motherboard with on-board JMicrcon controller. I've
Any motherboard with a 965 chipset is a bit of a bugger to get going ...
I've installed Ubuntu Edgy on a couple of different Intel 965
motherboards but I needed to build a custom installation CD to do it.
There are two problems:
1. The PATA controller doesn't work unless "all-generic-ide" is passed
on the kernel command line, but this option doesn't work if the
driver is a module. Solved by compiling the module in to the
kernel.
2. The e1000 network driver in the kernel doesn't support the new h/w.
Solved by replacing the e1000 driver with the latest from sf.net.
A few days ago, Ubuntu released a kernel update which apparently
includes these fixes. I've installed it on one Intel 965 motherboard
and it appears to work. I haven't done a huge amount of testing but
both the PATA optical drive and the network are OK.
I've only found one live CD which boots and runs on the Intel 965
motherboards: grml (http://grml.org/).
> I actually wanted to install Centos 4.4 on it but had trouble getting it
> to find the install media - looks like the 'all-generic-ide' kernel option
> helps there (just tested that) but the install still locks up... trying
A few other options that I've seen suggested to deal with various
problems with 965 chipsets: pci=nommconf, acpi=off, irqpoll. Zero or
more of those may work for you.
Cheers,
John
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