On 10/8/07, Peter Kjellstrom <cap at nsc.liu.se> wrote: > On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Michael Rock wrote: > > Been running rock solid servers on Centos 3 and 4 for > > years but equipment is starting to die so it is time. > > > > I was thinking along the lines of an Intel Q6600 on an > > Asus P5K-VM mobo with the new G33 chipset utilizing > > SATA. Is anyone having success with this board or any > > of the G33 chipsets where I am not going to run into > > all kinds of install problems? > > I just recently installed a G33 based board with centos-5 (x86_64). If the > board has an ich9r the sata part it easy (use ahci in bios). My install > hanged unless I passed acpi=off or pci=nommconf (the latter the real fix). > > After install I had to build my own e1000 from the intel page to get the > onboard GigE to work and pci=nommconf is still needed (but does not cause any > negative side effects that I know of). > > All this for an Intel DG33TL board. > > Good luck, > Peter Some discussions are found on the CentOS forums: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9585&forum=39&post_id=33771 and http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9667&forum=39&post_id=33770 including Peter's notes. :-) Akemi