Hi,

Just a follow up with SL4 and core duo.
The problem is due to the intel motherboard 965 family.

I have made progress mainly by adding these two parameters to the boot 
command
all-generic-ide pci=nommconf

and the bios setting of the driver to legacy

I have been following this:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6070&forum=29


There are new bios available from intel and also drivers for RedHat 4.3 
and 4.4 (I'm trying to install 4.3) .

So far the only that has not worked is the ethernet. Hopefully I will 
get that working on monday.

Cheers,
Aldo



Aldo F. Saavedra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is in regards to installing SL4.3 i386 in a "core duo"
> At the moment it hangs after the line:
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> 
> I have tried linux all-generic-ide  and the live CD does not boot up 
> either.
> 
> The funny thing is that SL3 installs with very little trouble
> 
> Sorry I'm light on the machine details, I can provide them tomorrow.
> The machine does have a SATA disk.
> 
> Any ideas are welcomed.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Aldo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Connie Sieh wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Raymond Frey wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Two questions which I couldn't find on the archives...
>>> 1) I am told SL4 does not work on my new core duo platform because 
>>> there is not a working jmicron driver for the CD/DVD writer. Is there 
>>> any experience with this?
>>
>> It is not a issue with the "core duo" , it is a issue with the ide 
>> chipset
>> that the motherboard vendor added for ide.
>>
>> For example there is a Intel motherboard the uses a different chipset 
>> than the jmicron and it works fine. 
>>> 2) Assuming the above is a solved problem, how does one obtain the 
>>> installation CDs for SL4 ?
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The only thing that I know to try is to use
>>
>>   all-generic-ide
>> at the install boot prompt.  And then again in the /etc/grub.conf .
>>
>> This is what is needed for the Intel motherboard.
>>
>> -Connie Sieh
>>
> 

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