On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:53:04PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:10AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: > | I refuse to use nvidia products, but I somehow doubt that boards based > | on their nforce2 chipset work properly either. > > I have a machine using the nforce2 chipset and the Woody installer > doesn't recognise its IDE controller. (Proper support is only in kernel > versions >= 2.4.21.)
Actually it does, at least well enough to install. You need a kernel argument to persuade it to work, and I can't remember what it was offhand, but it's quite doable. I believe it is merely that the kernel can't autodetect the presence of this controller in older versions. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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