Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (299 mails)

[Rodrigo V Monteiro <Rodrigo.V.Monteiro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Pete,

      Yes, I read your reply and found your machine a splendid one setup.
Mine setup involves a ATA133- 80GB disc layouted like this:

hda1 - Windows 2000 (just for games)
hda2 - /boot for Slackware
hda3 - /boot for Suse 9.0 AMD64
hda4 - extended like this:
      hda5: Windows data volume
      hda6: Linux Swap for both ones
      hda7: / for Slackware
      hda8: / for Suse

      Just keeping boot partitions at the begining of the disc to play safe
with IDE issues.

      I had Suse 8.2 installed before but I am not sure if I had problems
booting it with SK8N (I had similiar problems with an older K7 board). When
installing Suse 9-64bit I got no problems with the boot CD but the first
reboot would not work stopping after discs messages. I booted safe option
grom GRUB, added the 3 parameters to it (ide=nodma apm=no acpi=no) and
everything went fine. I took out ide=dma and got the regular boot, so I
need to isolate the apm and acpi yet. The setup is 2 days old so I haven't
time to play around with it. I do intend to buy next AMD64 Suse version
with new Kernel and SATA drivers (the 64-bit is not sold here yet so I had
to download it for awhile). Also I do believe Suse will provide them soon
since SK8N is the most popular board for Opteron/64-FX processor.

      As it goes on the list, SATA chipset used in this board is still not
well supprted or designed. People advise to buy a well supported board for
SATA and RAID. Unfortunatelly there is no SATA drivers easily to be found
in Brazil to test it. It should be a year until it caches up.


      If I can be of any help, just let me know.


                                                                       
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                      "Pete Bradbury"                                  
                      <pete.bradbury@stantonb        To:       "Rodrigo V Monteiro" <Rodrigo.V.Monteiro@xxxxxxxxx>
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                                                     Subject:  Re: [suse-amd64] Status of Serial ATA support [Virus checked US]
                      12/01/2004 12:36                                 
                                                                       




Hi Rodrigo

Was yours a dual boot or a standalone?

I ask because I have a similar setup - perhaps you've read my reply to this
thread along the way?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodrigo V Monteiro" <Rodrigo.V.Monteiro@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Status of Serial ATA support [Virus checked US]







      Hi Dave, not sure if it helps but when I installed Suse 8.2 and Suse
9.0 64-bit in my SK8N board with ATA133 I only was able to reboot it using
ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off parameters at boot line in GRUB. These
parameters are listed at  Safe Boot menu option. This same problem happend
to me with an older board during install boot and I could proceed normally
using the safe boot option from the install menu.

      I still have to trim down which of the 3 parameters I can exclude
from the boot line  so to disable functions. ide=nodma should slow down
disc performance a bit but I would have to benchmark how much.

      Hope that helps.

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                      Andreas Jaeger

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                      12/01/2004 06:12         Subject:  Re: [suse-amd64]
Status of Serial ATA support





"Dave Reid" <davereid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I disabled the Serial ATA drive and installed a 60GIG standard ATA133
drive.
> I installed Windows on this drive to confirm all the hardware was working
> and it was. In went the SUSE 9.0 PRO for AMD 64 DVD I paid $200 for, it
> displayed the install menu, I selected INSTALL and it start to boot. It
then
> promptly seized up at exactly the same place it did before as below:
>
> Starting hardware detection
>>misc.1.3 read floppy - then nothing.

This so far was always a BIOS bug.  So, please buy next time correctly
working hardware.

Workarounds:
- Add "idle=poll" to the linuxrc command line  (where you choose the
  boot options)
- Disable legacy USB support

Which of these two will help, depends on the exact problem and the
BIOS bug.

> [...]

Andreas
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