FC6-T2 (DVD) won't boot on Core 2 Duo setup

[Nathan Grennan]

Drew Bertola wrote:
> Nathan Grennan wrote:
>> As far as I know it can't be worked around. I ran into the same 
>> problem with my new Core 2 Duo system. I opened 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201977 and it 
>> was closed as rawhide. kernel-2.6.17-1.2543.fc6 works for me. I am 
>> currently running FC5 on mine for working Nvidia binary drivers. Xorg 
>> 7.1 in FC6 isn't properly compatible with the ATI or Nvidia binary 
>> drivers.
>>
>>  I still have serious problems though. The onboard Jmircon JMB363 
>> sata/pata controller is disabled on boot. Hence I had to go out and 
>> get a sata optical drive. My dual onboard gigabit r8168 network cards 
>> don't work either. I found a set of patches for 2.6.18rc2, which is 
>> older than the latest development kernel,  
>> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.18-rc2/r8169/  They 
>> don't seem to have been merged with the main tree. There is also a 
>> driver from Realtek, from what I have read, but it's quality is 
>> questionable.
> Thanks, that helps a ton.  I disabled the Jmicron controller and 
> booted FC5 (cd disc 1) of my trusty Sony USB CD.  This was successful.
>
> I may just go get a PATA->SATA converter to hook up the DVD burner to 
> one of the ICH8 ports, rather than the JMicron PATA port.
>
> If I get a chance, I'll try this approach with the FC6-t2 DVD install.
>
  I have some PATA to SATA converters and they are hard drive only. I 
forgot that and tried one with my PATA drive, and of course it didn't work.

  I found the Abit AB9 Pro didn't reliable recognize hard drives on 
reboot. So I bought a Asus P5B Deluxe, revision 1.03G, and plan on 
returning the AB9 Pro. The P5B has the ICH8 controller and Jmicron 
controller. Because they are the same I didn't have to reinstall 
Windows. It lacks the Silicon Image controller of the AB9 Pro, but my 
case is maxed out already using the six ICH8 ports. The P5B does seem to 
reliable recognize the drives, though sometimes it is slow about it.

  The P5B has two different Marvell network cards instead of the Realtek 
8168 cards of the AB9 Pro.  The first Marvell is a 88E8001. It works 
with the skge driver. The second is a 88E8056, which isn't recongized. I 
suspect it should work with the sky2 driver, but the driver lacks the 
pci ids. It could also be the skge driver though.

  The hardware is still mostly unrecognized by lspci.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a0 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a1 (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2834 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2835 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283a (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Unknown device 284b (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283f (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2849 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2830 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2831 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2832 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2836 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2810 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2821 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283e (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 
0391 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown 
device 4364 (rev 12)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
04:01.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
04:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port 
(rev 04)
04:02.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A 
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)


My new system:
Asus P5B Deluxe Wifi-edition
Core 2 Duo 6600
2x1gb OCZ DDR2 PC6400
nVidia 7600 GT
4x250gb Seagate 7200.8 sata drives
300gb Seagate 7200.9 sata2 drive
Plextor PX-755SA dvd burner