Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(
I was planning on buying this board soon, so I'm interested in the
possibly solutions. Let me see if I got this right...
(1) Use the UDMA-66 controller.
(2) Compile a kernel with the UDMA-100 support in it (either on
another machine, or when using the UDMA-66), and boot from that.
But if you have an empty system, how do you install debian? Are
there docs on how to make an installation boot disk with certain
modules compiled into the kernel?
> On 20001227.0409, Stephen Rueger said ...
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:07:05AM +1000, Ian Tan wrote:
> > I have recently purchased an ASUS A7V motherboard (socket A) with
> built-in "Promise ATA/100 IDE controller", and so I happily bought a
> new 30Gb Quantum ATA/100 hard disk. :)
> >
> > However, Potato doesn't like my IDE controller and my hard disk is
> not detected, hence my system is paralised without a hard disk. (Well,
> I suspect that it is the unrecognised IDE controller that is the
> likely cause of fault, and hard disk will be detected if the correct
> IDE controller module is loaded into the kernel)
> >
> > I have tried the udma66 and the idepci flavors and none of them seem
> to work...
>
> Hi Ian!
> There is a kernel-patch out in the net, and with the patched kernel
> you can create a boot-floppy and start the installation.
> Another possible solution (I did it that way) is to plug the HDD onto
> the other Controller. As long as you doesn't use more than one hard
> disks, there won't be any difference in speed, because a lonely HDD
> hasn't enough power for even an UDMA-66-controller.
>
> G'night!
>
> Stephen Rueger
>
>
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