On 7 May, Roger Mason wrote: > Hello Andrea, > > Andrea Conti <a...@alyf.net> writes: > >> I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be >> P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer >> drivers and using a plain VGA console. >> >> Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults. >> >> And no, EM64T just means it *can* run amd64 -- i686 is fine and IMO a >> lot better for that kind of hardware if you do not absolutely need to >> run 64-bit code for some reason. > > That is what I thought. > > I looked into the BIOS: no AHCI support. I edited the genkernel .config > and set the various SATA drivers as built-in. There seemed to be > nothing wrong with grub or its configuration (I rebuilt it anyway, just > in case). In the end I gave up and installed the machine as an amd64. > I may know today how that turned out: my install script shuts the > machine down at the end and I'll need to get someone to re-boot it for > me as I'm not in the office. > > I'll let you know what happened. > > Thanks Andrea and everyone else for your help. >
One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list) Boot from a rescue CD (preferably http://www.sysresccd.org/ ) then execute lspci -k it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot. Good luck, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
