FC3 x86_64 install on sil3114 SATA controller problems.

[Dirk Gfroerer]

> We have purchased a Tyan Tiger k8w(s2875) yesterday.
> I am trying to install Fedora Core 3 x86_64 on a
> machine with Tyan Tiger k8w with dual opteron 242
> CPU's, 4gb RAM, 120GB seagate SATA drives connected to
> sata 1 & 2. 
> My problem is although FC3 complets the install it
> fails to reboot. I followed the directions in the
> downloaded file SiI3114- Serial ATA (SATA) 64-bit
> Linux RAID Driver (for AMD 64-bit platforms only).zip
> file from the driver downloads section on tyan's site
> but the insertion of driver does not take place. the
> initial_install.sh script  does not manage to insert
> the driver module. The same works for RH9 though. But
> we need the Fc3 x86_64 for which we bought the board &
> the CPU's.
I'm not sure whether your problem is identical to the one I faced on a 
Dell PowerEdge with two Intel Xeon EM64T processors but it is surely 
worth a try. The problem I was facing (with RHEL 3U4 and RHEL4 Beta 2) 
was, that the machine had too much RAM (4GB as in your case). There are 
problems in RHEL3 U4 (which are supposed to be fixed in U5) and RHEL 4 
Beta 2 (which should have been fixed in RHEL 4 Gold) when you've got 
more than 3,x GB and you are using SATA drives. Just try to append 
mem=2048M to your kernel command line and test if the machine boots up 
properly.

For reference:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=142954

Kind Regards,
Dirk