Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thursday 27 October 2005 17:35, Pierre Patino wrote:
Greetings
I obtained a newly released Opteron/Athlon64 socket 939 motherboard from SuperMicro. I built the box and put the DVD in and booted. After I get
What chipset is it?
ServerWorks HT1000 or HT2000. I'm not in my office now so I'll have to find out later.
through the installation choices, the installer stops and says it can no longer "see" the DVD/CD reader (panel becomes painted in red). This I tried with every installation choice (acpi on/off, safe mode etc.).
I tried loading SLE9 and I got a different problem -- it could not see the SATA hard disk.
Does 10.0 work? And is it an SATA DVD?
You can check the BIOS setup. If it has something called "legacy IDE mode" or similar enabling that might help.
DVD is IDE. I'm going to try 10.0 today. I'll also set the BIOS to legacy IDE first. Thanks for that tip.
I suspect that the loaded 9.3 kernel module has trouble talking to the DVD drive because of some chipset issue. I'm surprised that the initial whatchamacallit that boots and starts the installation process has no trouble with the DVD drive. Has anybody conquered this demon?
The initial boot loader uses the BIOS to access the DVD, the later installation requires a Linux driver.
-Andi
I see a chicken-egg issue. IIRC the SLE9 had an option at the bottom to load a specific driver before the installation. Perhaps that is possible with 9.3? Maybe I have to copy the DVD to a disk, operate on it, copy it back to another DVD?