Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
A E Lawrence wrote:
Pete Klemm wrote:
A. E. Lawrence is correct on the disk enumeration issue. I am running
2.6.12-686-smp with
udev 0.87-1 and the disk enumeration is quite flaky as some times it
boots properly and
other times not. udev also has a problem with my Radeon 7000VE in that
I did have a few problems with disc enumeration order differing
between install and sarge, but this was on a fairly complex system
with 4 SATA drives, a couple of genuine scsi drives and a legacy
PATA (ie IDE) drive.
The grub menu written by the installer tried to boot from the wrong
disc (because of said enumeration difference), so I used a grub
floppy and edited the entries on the first boot, and then changed
them permanently.
I should have mentioned in my earlier reply that I think I also had to
correct /etc/fstab which was also written incorrectly by the
installer. I may also have had to correct other configuration files,
but it is a long time ago now. Not difficult once you realize what is
going on, but it would be very tough for anyone new to Linux to sort
out and you definitely have to think about how to get a bootable system.
I think that I needed to mount the target file system with a rescue
disc in order to fix /etc/fstab.
But as several people have said, there should not be a problem with a
single disc.
ael
I have done 2 netinstall around chrismass time, one "sarge and one
"etch", on 2 boxes with asus A8N-sli MB and one sata hd. Using expert
mode for stable, regular mode for testing. Both went smoothly. I had to
use expert mode on stable to get the ethernet working.
Thierry
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