Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Sun Sep 7 21:05:47 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 09:29, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:34:29PM -0700, Alan wrote:
>  > I am trying to get Severn installed on a Sony 505ve laptop.  I have
>  > installed a number of other versions on it with no problem.
>  > 
>  > "linux ide1=0x180" does not work either. (Which used to be the fix for
>  > this problem on older installs.)
> 
> On my z600 (which is just a European version of the 505)
> I had to pass..
> ide1=0x180,0x386 pci=off
> 
> It then worked just fine..

That did the trick.  I had tried everything except the "pci=off".  It is
installing now.  (Fairly slowly, but installing.  I need a new
laptop...)


-- 
Alan <alan at clueserver.org>





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