Sata drives with nforce3 chip set on Motherboard
Billy Tallis
wtallis at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 03:41:37 UTC 2005
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:27:32 -0500, John Pearson <jpearson42 at wowway.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:39 pm, Billy Tallis wrote:
> > This is the right place to ask such questions. I would guess that
> > there are just not any other people with your problem on the list now.
> > The first step would be to submit a bug report about the installation
> > disc. FC4 will probably have the necessary drivers, if that is the
>
> Thank you very much for taking time to answer. I did trace down a bug report,
> but it is closed at this point in time.
>
> In point of fact, if I can download the next update of the the kernel
> 2.6.10-something, then the problem goes away. Which means to me that if i
> had an iso with the latest revision of kernel, then the system would work.
> and that is why I was wondering about that.
>
> I loaded FC2 and it had no problem with identifying an ide drive as an ide
> drive. But it does not support the ethernet chipset on the motherboard
> [sigh].
>
> However, with the sata drive formated by FC2, the FC3 installer finds it
> without problem. I did the install of FC3, but the 2.6.9 kernel panics when
> the handoff arrives. So... I am doing a minimum installation on an ide
> drive with FC3. I will do an immediate kernel update, rsync the sata drive
> to the ide drive, and then edit grub.conf. [All of this with my fingers
> crossed. ;-) Of course, I am open to suggestions, still.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> -jp
>
Since it seems that you will not have a stable system anyways, you
might as well get FC4 test 1 and see if that works. If not, then a bug
should not have been closed or a new one needs to be opened. Good
luck.
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