On 21 Feb 2008, at 3:42 pm, R. F. Grant wrote:
After trying many kernels, I also find an extra annoyance. The new PCs
contain
Intel Q35 motherboards which contain a known bug: they will not boot
from a
regular kernel unless you add pci=nommconf or acpi=off. There is a
patch
that
is supposed to fix this for 2.6.24 kernels, although I have not had
much
luck
with this.
I've successfully FAI installed HP Deskpro 7800 desktops, which have a
Q35 chipset, using FAI 3.1.8 with a 2.6.24 kernel. The kicker was the
e1000e ethernet driver that these machines need. Neither of the above
kernel options were required with that kernel (this was the
2.6.24-1-686 package from current Debian unstable, rebuilt for etch)
I can't address your issues specifically but the above approach worked
fine for me.
Tim
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