64-bit FC3 on nForce4 motherboards
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sun Jan 30 17:22:54 UTC 2005
I'm using the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (Socket 939) with an Athlon 64
3500+. My chipset is nForce3. I think you will be just fine if you
remove the PATA drive and install only to the SATA drive. Currently, my
system boots off an SATA drive and there is a second hard drive plugged
in also which is on the SATA2 connector. I started out with just the
boot drive connected to SATA1, got my system installed, and went on to
add the second drive to SATA2 and I created the mount point "by hand".
I do not know what happens when you attempt an install where 1 drive is
on the PATA connector and the other is on an SATA connector. I do know
that at install time, both drives are globbed together in an LVM Volume
Group. This happened when a friend asked me to install FC3 on his older
system and I just left both his PATA drives plugged in. I'm not sure how
it all works, but I think this might be confusing the boot process in
your case.
Your motherboard has an SLI capability, right? Are you implementing that?
Bob Cochran
Brian Stretch wrote:
> Has anyone successfully migrated a 64-bit FC3 machine to a nForce4
> chipset (PCI-Express) motherboard? I get a kernel panic very quickly
> during bootup, right after it fails to mount the drives (boot drive is
> Serial ATA, nForce controller). There are two PCI errors too. The
> weird thing is that I can boot linux rescue off the FC3 DVD and read
> my drives just fine. I had to move my HDs back to my old system to
> get online so I'm hoping someone can at least tell me if they have
> successfully run FC3 on a nForce4 chipset system.
>
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