Just installed 7.0 Air from a ISO image I downloaded. I had no unknown PCI Devices and it recognized all my memory. I also can access my UDMA66 27 Gig Maxtor Drive hde. My cdrom and HP IDE CD Writer was also setup properly. Even my AWE 64 sound card worked. The only problem was that I have 2 video cards in my computer a 3dfx 3500 agp and a ATI Rage Pro PCI. It tried to use the ATI server on the 3dfx just had to tell it the right one. Can't wait till Linux can do multiple cards. Great Job Ken -----Original Message----- From: David Foresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] BE6 II I had this same problem with all the mandrake beta's and mandrake 7.0 air. I have an abit bp6, it was only seeing 64meg of 256meg. I had to install using mem=256M. This is definatly a problem with mandrake 7, because slackware 7, redhat 6.1, mandrake 6.1, caldera, and corel linux have no problems detecting the memory. I test a lot of linux's :). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] BE6 II > Ken Hughes wrote: > > > I have been using 7.0 on a ASUS P2B motherboard with no major problems I > > then installed a an ABIT BE6 II in the same computer and am now unable to > > install 7.0 on it numerous problems happen. > > > > I upgraded the mother board to the latest bios and disabbled the UDMA 66 > > controler. > > > > It only reconizes 65meg of 128meg of ram and fails loading ramdisk it does > > allow me to continue for a while before finally failing altogether. Even > > worse problems if UDMA 66 is enabled. I also see that during the install > > lots of motherboard devices are not reconized. > > > > My question is this just a buggy mother board or just to new for Linux. > > Should I switch back to my P2B or just wait for the support for the board > > > > Ken > > Ummm, what you describe sounds suspiciously like a memory controller problem > OR a seating problem on the memory.... Check the bottoms of the sockets for > foreign material. If it is seeing the memory intermittently it is a sure > install failure. > > Civileme > > >
