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> Im not really sure where to post this, but I hope
> to save some people
> time in troubleshooting the problem I had. Googling
> did not help until
> near the end, but that's a matter of asking the
> right question.
>
> I bought a new motherboard, the Asus M2A-VM, and
> planned to install LFS on
> it. I quickly encountered a problem. I had gotten
> too close to the
> cutting edge. The LFS live CD and most distros will
> not boot on it. Most
> distros give a console shuts up kernel panic
> message, which
> apparently is due to an unrecognized NMI. I also
> got PCI: Cannot
> allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:14.0.
> Acpi=no, noapic
> nolapic do not help. When I tried running Fedora
> with the noprobe option,
> it complained that it could not find the SATA
> driver.
>
> The problem appeared to be the driver for the new
> AMD SB600 Southbridge
> chip. It handles PATA and SATA. I found that
> support for this chip did
> not appear until the Linux 2.6.20 kernel. The LFS
> live CD unfortunately
> appears to use 2.6.18, so that wont work for me.
> Fedora and Ubuntu wont
> work, although beta versions might. I suspect that
> when they offer new
> versions with GNOME 2.18, they will also use the
> 2.16.20 kernel.
>
> Suse 10.2 works but it has a problem setting video
> resolution for X
> Windows. Arch Linuxs latest iso will also boot. I
> think Ill try using
> Arch to build LFS.
>
>
For what it's worth,
I recently bought a FoxConn, K8M890M2MA-RS2H AM2
board.
via Chipset on it, with the "Winfast" bios.
[ I can post full spec as read by several distros if
anyone wants ]
Fedora 6, Mandriva 2006 and 7, PCLinuxOS, Debian all
work perfectly, Suse 10.1 and 10.2 lock up during
boot.
both lfs-livecd 6.2 and 6.3-pre-1 work perfectly
[ yes, Suse will not work on this system at all ]
limitation in the board of 2 GB DDR2 ram, and DDR2 is
the only ram type supported.
both Sata and Pata supported.
ob video, sound, nic.
[ retailer supplied addon video card, Asus EN6200TC,
based on the NVidia 6200 chipset. ]
I have noticed that the xorg nv driver has an issue,
it will leave a mouse pointer cursor in the lower
right corner of the display, the NVidia drivers don't
have this issue.
Just for the record, since this is an AMD AM2 64bit
system, that I have running lfs to send this.
Jaqui
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