On Monday 11 June 2001 00:12, Nate Amsden wrote: > hi. > > i just installed an amd thunderbird 1.33ghz along with an Asus A7A266. > I also upgraded to a 450watt power supply so i hope its just > as stable :) > > Currently I am running the same kernel(suprised it worked actually) > that i was using on the previous P3-800 on an Asus P3V4X. > > Linux 2.2.18 + ide patch (disks are raid1 on an promise ata100)
What chipset does the promise controller have and how did you install on the RAID? I have a Promise RAID controller onboard and I couldn't install Debain probably because the installation kernel does not have a driver for this controller. > my Q is -- is the kernel best left configured for i686 or > i586 ? i was expecting it to crash on i686 but luckily it > did not. I have chose 686 for my Thunderbird, at least it works.
