Michael W. Holdeman <PTFD9100 <at> beanstalk.net> writes: > > I can't even get it to boot! > > On Tuesday 03 February 2004 06:48 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: > > There's lots of "use 2.6" messages here, but does anyone have a list of > > what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I > > take the leap? > > > > e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning > > option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) > > nvidia keeps cropping up > > XFree looks like it has problems > > XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems > > > > BillK > > > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-user <at> gentoo.org mailing list >
Sounds like your running an ASUS motherboard there -- I ran in to the same problems. Use kernel parameters to disable pnp support pnpbios=off I think it is from memory and mine booted fine after that. There was even the builtin module for the 3com 940 via the sk98lin module. I booted off the distcc CD, since I wanted to use the beefy machine to help compilation on some Pentium 133's =) Other than than, I've had much success with 2.6 Tomasz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
