[CentOS] Problems loading CentOS 4.4 on ASUS M2N-MX mobo

[Florin Andrei]

Ed Burgstaler wrote:
> I have a brand new ASUS MB model M2N-MX which is giving me issues when 
> installing Centos 4.4 64 bit
> I initially had problems with finding the SATA drives but I resolved 
> that issue by simply selecting the NVIDIA SATA (sata_nv)driver from the 
> list of drivers during the initial install.
> The install seemed to go fine after that as the installer uses the 
> Generic VESA video driver during the install, however, upon the restart 
> after the install, the server then completely locks up. I can only 
> assume it is at the point of loading the video driver although I really 
> don't know what CentOS loads after the "acivating local loopback" 
> section, because that is where it freezes on the screen.

I have a motherboard that is not very different (probably not 100% 
identical either) and CentOS works fine. It's Fedora 6 that's causing 
SATA issues on that mobo.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227186

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227441

There's something wrong with SATA on these new motherboards. Or maybe 
they are too new and the SATA support in the kernel is lagging.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/