Re: Linux does not run on my new motherboard :(

[Rogerio Brito <rbrito@iname.com>]

On Dec 27 2000, 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. :)

	I have this very same board and it works perfectly.
	Unfortunately, I don't have an UDMA/100 drive, everything
	works perfectly well other than that.

	I suggest you just plug your drive on the first (i.e., UDMA/66
	controller), install potato, install gcc, ncurses etc, grab a
	kernel from your favourite kernel.org mirror and André's
	Hedrick patch from http://www.linux-ide.org/. Compile it
	accordingly and you'll be able to use the Promise controller.

> I have looked at the latest kernel -- 2.4.0-test12 and it doesn't
> seem to have any IDE options that are relevant ...

	These kernels *do* have support for the Promise controller.

> Have I overlooked anything? Does anyone have any ideas?


	Hope this helps, Roger...

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