can't install on asus a7n8x

[Ivo Sarak]

	Hello,

	I heard it first time that RH9 is not capable to run on Asus a7n8x
Deluxe. I type this email on of these and Severn + updates are running
just fine on second box.
I see no DMA issues and even the SATA is enabled.

	Regards,
Ivo Sa"rak.


On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Per Bothner wrote:

> I rather optimistically bought an Asus a7n8x Deluxe
> motherboard (with the Nvidia nForce2 chipset), along with
> an Athlon XP 2600+, and tried to install Severn2.  Multiple
> times.  Each time it got partway into installing packages and
> then a kernel panic or freeze.
>
> I had hoped it would work, since I read (mis-read?) that
> the a7n8x runs on RH 9 without patches.  But that doesn't
> seem to be the case either - each time I try to do a
> gcc boostrap (on a different partition than the one I
> tried to install Severn2 on), gcc fails in a different way.
>
> My guess is some disk-related problem, such as DMA.
> (I have moved a jumper to disable SATA, so the kernel would
> not timeout for the non-existent drives.)  Any suggestions?
>
> [This is a re-port.  The previous posting has spent almost
> to 24 hours awaiting "moderator approval", so I decided I
> needed to subscribe.]
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