[Klug-general] [change subject] non-linux-mobo

[MacGyveR]

On Friday 26 October 2007 09:59, Colin McCarthy wrote:
> On 10/25/07, George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've never heard of linux not running on a specific motherboard, which
> > one was it?
>
> It's a MSI Intel P35 Neo board.  Its pretty good as it will take a Core 2
> Quad chip (when prices come down) and upto 8GB of Ram with 4 slots :-)  (
> http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=4JWT)
>
> I have tried every distro under the Sun, but they all say they can't find
> the CD drive after initially booting from it.  According to 'google' lots
> of Ubuntu people have had problem with this board.  Some say it's a problem
> with OnLite DVD drives so I even tried with a different brand but still no
> joy.  I have also tried a network install of SLED10 but again the installer
> does not find the onboard network card.
>
> It runs Windows lovely though ;-)

do you have a sata dvd drive?

if so, you will need to pass

append="libata.atapi_enabled=1"

to lilo or grub

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