Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

Hi , Here I am again, with some news ! You were right, Todd, it's a DMA problem. Booting with ide=nodma solve it. What puzzles me is that 1) the WD drive works fine with my MSI motherboard (Nforce2 chipset) and 2) The Fujitsi and the old IBM disk also have the problem with the bi-proc. mobo. And

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

Stephane Junique wrote: Hello, Yes, this is probably an IO problem. I tried but the installation still stops with an error. Other ideas ? Regards, Stephane Go back and double check your dip settings for the hard drive and the cd-roms to insure they are set correctly as 'master or slave Try

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephane Junique wanted us to know: I tried to pass noapic and acpi=off to the kernel, but it didn't help. But I believe you are in the right direction, something has to be switched off in the kernel, probably something that was not in the 2.2

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

Hello, Yes, this is probably an IO problem. I tried but the installation still stops with an error. Other ideas ? Regards, Stephane Sounds like an io problem, try installing by passing the noauto switch. That is when installing hit F1 and linux noauto this will bypass the hardware

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

Hi, I am now using an older Fujitsu disk (I'll buy a new one eventually). I disabled DMA access in the BIOS but the logfile during installation says that DMA is used :-( I tried to pass ide0=nodma to the kernel, as you suggest, but the syntax must be different because the kernel complains

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

Hello Larry, I indeed saw several reports of ASUS A7M266-D running Linux on the net, which is why I bought an AMD bi-proc mobo in the first place: I was sure that it would work smoothly... Very strange, this WD drive stuff. I also have a WD drive ! The 120GB model with 8MB of cache. But the

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

Hello Todd, Thank you for your answer. I tried to pass noapic and acpi=off to the kernel, but it didn't help. But I believe you are in the right direction, something has to be switched off in the kernel, probably something that was not in the 2.2 kernel: I have just installed redhat 6.2 and it

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

Stephane Junique wrote: Hello Larry, I indeed saw several reports of ASUS A7M266-D running Linux on the net, which is why I bought an AMD bi-proc mobo in the first place: I was sure that it would work smoothly... Very strange, this WD drive stuff. I also have a WD drive ! The 120GB model with

[expert] MSI K7D Master

Hello, First of all, greetings to all of you ! My name is Stephane Junique, I am new on this list. I have been a Mandrake user for a few years and a Linux user since 95. I hope I'll get everything right from the first post :-) I am looking for someone with a Linux system running on a MSI K7D

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

Stephane Junique wrote: Hello, First of all, greetings to all of you ! My name is Stephane Junique, I am new on this list. I have been a Mandrake user for a few years and a Linux user since 95. I hope I'll get everything right from the first post :-) I am looking for someone with a Linux

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephane Junique wanted us to know: My system consists of the MSI motherboard, one Athlon 2400MP, I can't seem to install Linux on this system. I tried Mandrake 9.1, 8.2, as well as several RedHat distributions. Most of the time, the installation