[CentOS] 2.6.18 Kernel

Fri Oct 6 22:15:27 UTC 2006
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On 10/6/06, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> wrote:
> FC5 doesn't install without command line arguments either.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion,
>

In that case, I would find out if you need BIOS updates. Most of the
boxes I saw that needed those command line options needed a BIOS
update.


> -Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:50 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: [CentOS] 2.6.18 Kernel
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 at 3:30pm, Drew Weaver wrote
>
> > So you're the one guy that got it working?
> >
> > In order for me to even get the installer to boot on a DG965ss I have
> > to pass these commands to the kernel:
> >
> > pci = nommconf acpi=off irqprobe all-generic-ide
> >
> > If I do all of that it will install, but it has no idea what any of
> > the devices are.
>
> In this order, I'd:
>
> 1) Make sure you're installing 4.4 (rather than a previous point
> release.
>
> 2) Run FC5 (or 6, due out next week) until CentOS 4.5 is out, which will
>     likely improve support for those chipsets.
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
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