At 11:33 PM 29/11/2007, Stephan Hegel wrote:
Michael Fischer wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, Denis Brown wrote:
ASUS P5K motherboard has onboard Jmicron chip. I could not get 10.1 to install. As it happened Ubuntu (7.0.4??) installed fine and I was content for a while.
How exatly does one figure that out? If it has the Jmicron thing? I run in problems with SuSE 10.2 and the ASUS P5K motherboard. Here my notes I made at that time how I got it running:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Install notes for OpenSuSE 10.2 on a PC with Asus P5B / P5K / P5K-E board. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Possible problem with "Install-CD not found".
Load the BIOS, pressing DEL just after power it on. Somewhere in the BIOS setup there should be an option for the JMicron drive controller("Onboard Devices" in the P5B BIOS menu). Set it to AHCI mode. Save and exit with F10.
Re-start the installation process adding in the first boot menu the boot option: insmod=ide-generic insmod=pata_jmicron
As of the JMicron chip: there should be an entry in the BIOS.
Rgds, Stephan.
Thank you very much. Stephan. That is most interesting and I will file the solution away for the future! Please note that the option for the running onboard devices (the Jmicron chip) in AHCI mode seems to be absent in the latest released version (0704) BIOS for the P5K board. It now shows only IDE. As part of troubleshooting system instability I updated the original BIOS (version 0302) and discovered the AHCI option was missing! Version 0704 of the BIOS does, however, fix a problem where glxgears apparently jumps the CPU core temperature dramatically. With version 0302 the temps went up 20 degrees Celcius! Why that should be I have no idea :-) Hope this helps, Denis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org