Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Hardware Problem on new Dell Machines

[Matthew B. <m...@wh...>]

Hi Martin,

I've just had some problems with a new ICH8 Intel motherboard. The cdrom
could be seen to boot from but failed to mount due to insufficient
kernel support. It turned out that I needed at least kernel version
2.6.18 with the mm patch set or 2.6.19 stock kernel with a newer libata
mod (and other stuff). You may want to take the same approach as I did,
at least to be able to work out what you have.

Try this live Gentoo cd. http://www.kernel-of-truth.net/downloads_kOT.html

Boot it (if it can) and see what kernel mods are loaded and run lspci to
see what the hardware is. This will put you in a better position to work
out what you need for DL.

Hope this helps,

Matt

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I don't have DL running with a SATA board, but I'd guess it's a matter of
> finding the correct SATA module which you have to load.
> 
> Heiko
> 
> On Sun, October 29, 2006 14:31, Martin Ginkel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> is there anyone with experience with DL on some newer Machines with
>> SATA_PIIX boards.
>>
>>
>> I have (mis)used DL 1.2.10 as boot-system for mass-cloning some standard
>> Linux-installation to our PCs.
>> On these these machines the CDROM was attached to a normal IDE Bus and
>> the harddisk was accessible with the DL after loading the ata_piix driver
>> via the INITRD_MODULES. Everything worked fine.
>>
>>
>> Now we have a new Series (Dell Optiplex 745) were the hardware has
>> changed. The CDROM is now also attached to the SATA, the loading of the
>> piix module fails and the CDROM cannot be found by Devil.
>>
>> Is there a way to work around this problem? Are there updates to the
>> kernel-modules available?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
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