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
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. (Embedded image moved to file: pic26299.gif) (Embedded image moved to file: O: +55 11 F: +55 11 EY/Comm: pic17035.gif)Rodrigo De 3523-5494 3078-1105 4776668 Vincenzo Monteiro Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> To: <davereid@telusplanet.net> cc: <suse-amd64@suse.com> 12/01/2004 06:12 Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Status of Serial ATA support "Dave Reid" <davereid@telusplanet.net> writes: 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.
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