Re: MSI K8N Neo Platinum Installation Report & GRUB/LILO troubles

[Brian Oborn <oborbria@athena.physics.isu.edu>]

I ran into some grub problems myself running pure64, but I found that 
booting the kernel that you use to install grub from with the 
"noexec=off" command (per harald dunkel's instructions in a previous 
thread) worked for me.

Brian Oborn
oborbria@physics.isu.edu

Jörg Ebeling wrote:

> > I recently bought the following system:
> >     - AMD64 3200+ (socket 754)
> >     - MSI K8N Neo Platinum  
> I've the same MoBo...
>
> > I started my journey having in mind to install the Sid's Debian
> > pure64, and knowing I might (or might not) have some problems doing
> > it, as this motherboard isn't in the supported/tested k8 motherboards
> > list.
> >  
> ... the list really needs an update. Lot of us posted new working MoBo 
> informations here.
>
>
> > Altough I had Sid in mind, I started to burn the latest netinst iso
> > from from Sarge since it was a newer (20/03/2005). Well, it didn't
> >  
> Can't say anyting about that version, but I used a SID iso dated on 
> 9/3/2005.
>
>
> > work, and it seemed to me that the nforce3 250 was not properly
> > handled, possibly because it might use a kernel prior to the
> > nforce3-250_trouble_free_2.6.10. I have to say I found it odd the date
> >  
> Huam. At the time of installing, I used P-ATA disks. S-ATA is working 
> here, but I installed a newer kernel somewhen.
>
>
> > I must say I was getting frustrated and disappointed. At that time I
> >  
> Do you have the chance of installing a minimal system on a P-ATA disk ?
> If so, you could do a minimal install, make some online updates 
> including the newest kernel.
> After that you could copy your system to your S-ATA pair.
>
>
> > (altough I was pleasently suprised to know that the X detected my new
> > Nvidia 6600GT!).
> >  
> Well, I've a NVidia Quadro. AFAIK they use the same driver.
> BTW: I used the first time the Debian NVidia package (instead the one 
> from NVidia), and the compiling/installing stuff worked really fine !
>
>
> > installed me the base system. So far so good (kind of :P ). My main
> > (unsolved) problems began when I tried to to install GRUB.
> >  
> Yeees. I've had that troubles too. grub-install and "setup" from the 
> grub shell does mostly a segfault.
> Booting with grub worked at my side, but with a scrambled boot-screen.
> I used a normal (IA32) grub install to get a working grub installation.
>
>
> > Any hints on how to install a bootloader sucessfully?
> >  
> As said, I installed grub from within a normal IA32 system. You may 
> try with a grub disk build on a IA32 system too.
>
>
> Cya
>  Joerg