On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">MacGyveR</b> <<a href="mailto:macgyver@thedumbterminal.co.uk">macgyver@thedumbterminal.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 26 October 2007 09:59, Colin McCarthy wrote:<br>> On 10/25/07, George Prowse <<a href="mailto:cokehabit@gmail.com">cokehabit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I've never heard of linux not running on a specific motherboard, which
<br>> > one was it?<br>><br>> It's a MSI Intel P35 Neo board. Its pretty good as it will take a Core 2<br>> Quad chip (when prices come down) and upto 8GB of Ram with 4 slots :-) (<br>> <a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=4JWT">
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=4JWT</a>)<br>><br>> I have tried every distro under the Sun, but they all say they can't find<br>> the CD drive after initially booting from it. According to 'google' lots
<br>> of Ubuntu people have had problem with this board. Some say it's a problem<br>> with OnLite DVD drives so I even tried with a different brand but still no<br>> joy. I have also tried a network install of SLED10 but again the installer
<br>> does not find the onboard network card.<br>><br>> It runs Windows lovely though ;-)<br><br>do you have a sata dvd drive?<br><br>if so, you will need to pass<br><br>append="libata.atapi_enabled=1"<br>
<br>to lilo or grub<br><br>--<br>-</blockquote></div><br>No I have only got IDE drive, but I might have to get one. Was surprised how cheap they are now. Dabs are doing a SATA Lightscribe for only 22pounds.<br><br>