I decided to take the plunge and start playing around with dual core technology, so I went down to the local store and picked up a new CPU, RAM, and motherboard. However, what I discovered was that it can actually be quite difficult actually installing Linux to what I had purchased, due to the newness of the technology. While support for dual core CPUs has been around for a while, support for some of the more recent motherboards has not, and mine was one of them. So, I could wait for broader support in a few months, or see what I could do now.
First, the reference information — the hardware I used.
* Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6600
* Intel Classic Series Desktop Board DG965SS
* Kingston KVR533D2N4K2/1G (2x 512 MB)
* Western Digital 74 GB SATA Raptor WD740ADFD
* Antec TruePower 2.0 TPII-430
* JVC XJ-HD166S ATAPI DVD-ROM
Live isn’t so live, after all.
My plan was to battle-test this system with a few different Linux distributions, and then transition to testing Windows, but alas — my plans were not to be. I couldn’t even successfully boot up the live CDs I had! I’ve reproduced the error messages below, for the people searching for an answer.
If I tried to boot up Knoppix 5.0 DVD (2006-06-01-EN), I would get this error:
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell. Press the reset button to quit.
If I tried to boot the Ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” live CD, I would get this error:
BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1.1.1.3-2ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
If I tried to boot the CentOS 4.4 live CD, I wouldn’t even get an error message — it would just reboot when I tried to select an option.
The interesting thing about the above is that the file system for live CDs largely lives on the CD itself. Hence, if it couldn’t read it as in the above, then for some reason, the DVD drive wasn’t accessible. After doing a little research online, I discovered that the motherboard was relatively new, and did some rather funky things with the handling of the IDE devices. Hence, the computer would start to boot off the optical drive, but when it came time to load up a kernel and actually boot the system, the computer no longer knew how to access the drive! This all resulted from a lack of Linux support for the new motherboard architecture from Intel. Haven’t Linux developers built that time machine yet to get future architectures into old kernels? (Note that Windows would have similar problems; if I didn’t have an up to date Windows install CD or the driver disk, I would be out of luck.)
New hardware? Please stand by, support will be added momentarily…
Linux developers have a reasonably quick turnaround time on these things, and have, in fact, added support to the kernel. Unfortunately, they added it to the most recent kernel — 2.6.18. In CentOS 4.4 (as well as Red Hat Enterprise 4.4), this is 2.6.9-39. In Knoppix 5.0 is 2.6.17. In Ubuntu Edgy Eft, it’s 2.6.17. I would need to wait for the next release before getting support for the 965 chipset. Fortunately for me, Fedora Core 6 was released with the 2.6.18 kernel, meaning that I could use that instead. Being that I didn’t really feel like re-authoring my own custom live CD, I went with that, and will just have to wait for future releases on the others.
The devil is in the details.
I downloaded Fedora Core 6 for x86_64. I’m fairly certain that the i386 version would install in much the same manner, but decided that I might as well use the 64-bit version. I put in the DVD and booted up the computer.
However, it brought up a text-mode window to select language, keyboard, and installation method: something had gone wrong, because in a normal install, the full graphical environment would have been displayed. Upon selecting an installation method of “Local CDROM”, the installer reported the error “No driver found” — looks like I had some work to do.
First, I rebooted and struck F2 to get into the BIOS. Under the “Advanced” tab, “Drive Configuration”, I set “Configure SATA as” to “AHCI”. I then exited, saving changes.
Next, I rebooted with the the install DVD in the drive. When the message came up “To install or upgrade in graphical mode, press the <enter> key.”, I didn’t just hit enter — instead, I typed the following line:
linux all-generic-ide pci=nommconf
This is the magic trick. After skipping the media check, the full graphical environment came up at that point, and I could install as per normal. I did so, and the computer rebooted after installation.
So close, I can taste it!
The computer boots up, and the Internet connection was recognized straight away. The resolution was set to 800×600, so I went to System->Administration->Display, and clicked on the Hardware tab. I changed the monitor to “Generic CRT Display/Monitor 1280×1024″, and then I could set the resolution to (naturally) 1280×1024. System updates worked fine, and programs launched correctly. I could surf the web without issue (except for flash support, which is a whole other problem I won’t address here).
However, there was something wrong…the optical drive no longer worked! I could put in a CD or DVD, and they wouldn’t be recognized by the operating system, despite having worked fine for the install process. The problem here is in GRUB, the Linux bootloader. While the install had correctly added pci=nommconf to the loader, it had neglected to include the all-generic-ide tag.
I edited /etc/grub.conf as root, and changed the line…
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 pci=nommconf rhgb quiet
…to…
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 all-generic-ide pci=nommconf rhgb quiet
I needed to re-install GRUB, with grub-install /dev/sda1. A reboot later, and things worked fine.
Success!
So yes, Virginia, it is possible to install Linux on this wonky motherboard. What’s more, since the support is in the kernel (and far better people than myself are slavishly hacking away at it), it’s quite likely that distributions will support this out of the box in the future without special handling. I haven’t had any issues with this set up yet, and it runs in 64-bit mode to boot.
Some closing thoughts…
* The problems I experienced were largely a result of the IDE channel handling of the chipset. If I had an SATA optical drive, I could probably have gotten up and running on Fedora Core 6 without any extra futzing. This also may have gotten Ubuntu to install as well.
* This also means that if you have, say, ATA drives (not SATA), you may experience a whole host of other problems.
* Ubuntu “Edgy Eft” should have some backports built into it to handle the Intel 965 chipset, however, I couldn’t get them to work. It’s feasible that this CD could boot on an ATAPI optical drive, if given the right options.
* While these problems will probably go away in new releases, it’s not guaranteed. The chipset will at least be better supported.
* I’m not looking forward to the Windows installation. The chipset claims that I should be fine with Windows XP SP2 or Windows Media Center Edition. Only time will tell.
Very nice post. I just used your workaround to get past the exact same problem loading Fedora Core 6. Thank you!
Excellent! I figured this article would come in handy for *somebody*.
I have a similar setup
Pentium D 930 Presler 3.0GHz
Intel Classic Series Desktop Board DG965SS
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
and I went through many of the same steps you did ( Installed Slackware 11 instead of FC6, but same issues) and ended up with a 2.6.18 kernel.
My drives are configured with reiserfs and two raid1 partitions. I have seen several kernel errors and panics on this box in the last couple weeks since it’s been up and running - appearantly related to the file system.
Have you had any similar problems with your setup? Any lockups or kernel errors?
Bob: I’ve only been running my setup for a short while, but haven’t had any issues yet. However, I’m running on a single SATA drive.
The kernel errors and panics are a bit disturbing. Are the drives for your RAID setup SATA? I’m guessing that anything running on IDE on this motherboard might be a little bit questionable.
Fedora Core 6 is pretty new; hopefully they’ll get some patches in to handle this hardware better.
Excellent post. Unfortunately I’ve found it after 5 long days of trying to install openSUSE 10.1; FC6; Ubuntu 6.10 and/or Mandriva 2007 on my G965WH/Conroe/WD 160 GB/Samsung SH-S182M DVD system unsuccessfully and browsing the internet in the meantime trying to find a clue.
The problem I have is a somewhat specific - trying to install dual boot (Win XP) AND some Linux distribution on the same HDD, which is configured as SATA/IDE in my BIOS. With the steps explained in the post I’ve suceded to get FC6 GUI installation screen. I’ve aborted the installation because it would be impossible to boot Win XP later on (Win XP was already installed) because of IDE/AHCI conflict.
So, this is the question: Is there any linux parameter apart from “all-generic-ide” and “pci=nommconf” to include at the command line which could somehow preserve my BIOS > SATA > IDE configuration (actually workaround-ing the BIOS/SATA/AHCI proposition in the post)?
The workaround would be to try BIOS/SATA/AHCI installation of FC6 as mentioned in the post and then somehow convert Win XP / BIOS/IDE to AHCI variant. I’m afraid it could be disastrous and I would loose my Win XP installation/data.
It makes no sense to ask me why I need Win XP on the same machine. I just need it there. Thanks for any new clues.
No need to apologize for using Windows; despite the linux zealots, Windows is quite useful.
However, trying to do this install without backing up your data (such as ghosting off an image) would be quite dangerous, as you’ve noted. Tread carefully.
Overall, I think you’re better off with running things under AHCI versus IDE mode SATA, as it’s newer and supports SATA2 and Native Command Queuing (NCQ). (Provided, of course, that your hardware supports it.) Being that you’ve installed Windows XP to SATA/IDE, I agree that it’d probably be disasterous to just try switching it and booting XP, especially considering that you probably don’t have the AHCI driver installed.
While I’ve had reasonable success with Windows in switching around hardware, I think it’d be a big gamble to just switch it and pray, due to the drivers. I’d say you should ghost off your image, then try it; then if it gets screwed up, restore the ghost image and all is well. (Entails you having Ghost to do so, and a place to dump the image.)
Alternatively, you could just wait; eventually the Linux community will get to supporting this better.
Thanks for posting this excellent source of information. Using your guides I was able to successfluy get Fecore Core 5 up and running. The problem I’m having now is it doesn’t support the onboard nic and when I insert a PCI realtek nic it doesn’t recognize it either. The board is an Intel DG965SSCK. If you or anyone else has any suggestions on how can get the pci nic recognized I could get out to the net and get the latest updates and kernel provided.
Thanks
I kept running into red herrings from 2005 about DMA problems when researching this, but once I figured out it was common to Core 2 Duo boards, I found your helpful article quickly, and it did the trick. Thank you!
I also wanted to add that your post helped a lot of KnoppMyth users who encountered the same problem. We now have a viable workaround for the issue in a manual install, and hopefully it’ll make its way into the auto install soon.
I’ve seen rumblings that this problem has been fixed in kernel 2.6.19, so hopefully this is a temporary condition.
Human: Wow, that’s really cool. =) I’m glad I could help. It’s also really cool that you’re working with MythTV development!
I too was saved by your clear and helpful post after a few days of frustration. I now have Fedora Core 6 setup. Previously, WinXP installed fine but for a hickup with the motherboard drivers’ CD not installing reliably. Intel was most helpful sorting that out via their online support.
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Thanks, I had many frustrating days including returning the motherboard for a new one, new cdrom and memory because I didn’t know about these needed parameters. Also tnx for mentioning the useful additions to grub.conf. And well written as well.
Thanks also for the tip. I just built 2 DG965RY-based systems, both had this issue, and it didn’t take me long to find tips like this.
I’m posting for Igor, though, if you’re still reading this.
Igor, don’t try to set up for dual boot - set up for virtual machines. You have two choices: VMware (either Linux or Win Xp as either host or guest), or Xen (Linux as host, Win XP as guest). With dual booting, you can run only one or the other at a time; with VMs, you can run both at the same time.
And only the host has to worry about the actual hardware and its ideosyncracies; the guests get generic virtual hardware, with little performance loss.
The Core 2 Duo chips have special support for virtualization, BTW, though I don’t know specifically what that is. I’ve been running VMware hosted on both WinXP and FC5, and I have no complaints, but the prime motivator for these two new systems is to be able to run multiple simulaneous guests under FC6 with either Xen or VMware; I didn’t have the memory for it before. I haven’t actually used Xen yet, but I’ve read it’s faster than VMware, which is already good enough for my purposes.
Thanks John, VM could be a solution. Maybe I will try it.
At the moment I’m using openSUSE 10.1 on my older machine (Intel 945, P4) and waiting for something new to happen (Linux kernel, drivers,…) for the newest one (Intel 965, Core 2 Duo).
Happy New Year to all of you
I’ve tried your suggestion John and it works. This is the first time I saw any Linux distribution working on my DG965WH box (and side by side with Windows XP). Actually it works with every Linux appliance (VMware called guest operating systems “appliances”) I’ve tried (openSUSE 10.2, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 5.1).
Although this particular solution isn’t part of this forum anymore, I would suggest it to all other Linux newbies (as I am), who are trying to “feel and learn” new operating system beside Windows:
1. Download VMware player for free from http://www.vmware.com and install it on your Windows box
2. Download preinstalled Linux VMware appliance (web is full of different distros) and give it a try with VMware player.
It is really easy, fast to install and to try Linux distribution which best fit your needs. It is even better then Live CD (some distributions offer this choice) as you are able to drive Windows AND Linux side by side (without need for reboot) - instead of Alt+Tab (for moving between Windows applications) just use Ctrl+Alt to change between Windows and Linux OS in the real time.
Linux world should use VMware (and possibly similar technologies) for marketing purposes in order to gain even better popularity in the “Linux newbies world”.
For me this solution was the only working one and perfectly fits my current Linux needs (learning). Thanks John for the brilliant idea. I hope that your iniciative will help some more Linux newbies out there.
Thank you very much … I have faced the same problem with DG965RY and now relieved when i saw your article.
I just wanted to follow up and say that KnoppMyth R5E50 has an ‘intelfix’ boot parameter that implements your workaround. It’s that easy
Wow, that’s great! I guess when I get my HTPC together, I should head straight for KnoppMyth. =)
Just found this and realized I never followed up, so here is my current status.
To refresh everyone’s memory, I commented back at the end of Novemeber. My configuration is:
Pentium D 930 Presler 3.0GHz
Intel Classic Series Desktop Board DG965SS
2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA drives in a RAID1 configuration
Custom 2.6.19 kernel
I continued to experience kernel panic problems. Wanted to reconfigure the drives as bootable RAID1 and made a tar archive of my initial installation and some installed data. This archive was around 12GB. When I attempted to extract this archive the system would kernel panic every time. I attempted different file systems, different kernel revisions, everything I could think of.
Finally I turned off the AHCI and ran the drives in legacy IDE mode. I am actually getting better performance and stability. I still encounter occasional lockups, but the frequency has been greatly reduced and I am not able to cause them consistently.
HHmm. This sound much like the problem I’m having with KnoppMyth. I installed the system using a USB CD-ROM just to install it, but now the in-built IDE DVD-RW is STILL not recognized. I figured I’d add those lines to grub to fix my problem, except KnoppMyth uses LILO….
Anybody know the steps to do this in LILO?
Regards,
Ed.
Thanks Techie,
your system worked well with a DG965RY with 2 x 320GB Sata and FC6 I386. So well infact I ordered another PC with the same specs to serve the same purpose. The only difference with the new PC is it has 2 x 400GB Sata drives.
The problem I am having is when anaconda boots through to the drive configuration page it only sees one of the sata’s (SDA). I have tried every combination that I can think of, i.e. two other 200GB sata’s but without success.
My aim is to run a software raid 1, hence the two HDD’s but I may be forced to use a hardware raid device instead.
Can anyone help find my SDB?
Hello, nice article
I have a question if some one can help, I recetly bought a new system with processor = pentium 4, 3.4GHZ XEON DUAL and trying yo install FEDORA CORE 4 ( i386 ) and my installation halts on this line : PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
can I use the option ” pci=nommconf ” and it will work ?
Thanks, this is really a great piece of information. Lot of people struggle with these kind of situations and you have shared your experience and knowledge. Really appreciate this…
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I’ve assembled this one machine with:
Motherboard: Intel DG965SS
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Memory: DDR2-533 2 GB
HD: Barracuda 7200.10 SATA/250.0 GB/7200 rpm
For the main purpose of scientific development (high performance computing).
So, I’m trying to find out what’s the best Linux distro to work with this hardware, the distro (not just the right kernel, but the best hardware support, given this mobo is fully onboard) which has 100% compatibility between hardware and OS.
This hard disk already has Windows XP Professional installed on it, and I don’t need to have both (Linux and Windows) running at the same time, but if it is the only way to work, ok.
Can you give me few directions??? Tips??? Answers???
Thanks in advance,
Samuel.
Hei Mannnnn
Thanks,
you are was the unica person who conseguio to install linux in this plate
I have a similar setup, and struggled for quite a while to get going, finding most of the info in scattered places. I’m here now searching for information on display drivers, because my ‘X’ won’t start. I have a few tips to add, which may help:
My system has four SATA drives installed. I wanted to use AHCI mode (in the BIOS), but setting this mode only allows two of the SATA drives to be displayed for use by FC6. I have used the IDE mode to allow all four SATA to be included. I found that the BIOS shipped on my MOBO was many versions old, so I upgraded that first (using bootable CD iso from Intel website), but still only two SATA drives were available under AHCI. Further info, I found that using “all-generic-ide” caused the SATA drives to appear as /hda /hdc /hde /hdg, which I preferred not to use…so I reached for the trusty external USB DVD drive, and unplugged the internal IDE DVD. My SATA drives are now configured as /sda /sdb /sdc /sdd as expected. (Just for extra info, I noted that this setup (SATA as IDE) is using the ata_piix driver, while the other way (SATA as AHCI) uses the ahci driver).
I am hoping that once the FC6 install is bedded down then I can plug the IDE DVD back in, but it will be interesting to see if my SATA dev naming gets messed up.
I will post a follow-up to indicate.
So in summary (for SATA):
Select SATA IDE mode in bios, unplug ATA devices.
Boot FC6 with NO parameters. Install to the SATA drives.
Once it comes up for the first time, quickly press DOWN ARROW in GRUB, then ‘e’ edit the 2nd line…add “single” after “quiet” (without the quotes), then allow the boot to continue ‘b’. Once it’s up, edit /etc/inittab, changing the runlevel from 5 to 3. Save the file. then type “init 3″ to bring up the machine in text mode. Do firstboot stuff and use yum to get the latest patches for all the packages. This is where I’m up to right now, and hoping that I can do init 5 soon to start running X.
If I don’t do that procedure above with grub, then the machine hangs right after enabling swaps, which is a bit confusing since it’s really just broken down trying to init into X. I have been chasing a swap problem for ages when it was really a display driver problem.
Sorry that’s all a bit of a ramble, but it covers three days of discovery…hope it can help someone.
thanks a lot. this article is so cool to me.
Excelent post.
I can install the Red Hat 4 on the Intel DG965SS Motherboard with your help.
Everything works fine.
Thanks
Thanks!
This article helped me through some installation woes.
(Intel DG965ss C2Duo E6300 running 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 x86_64).
I initially installed 2.6.18 from ide DVD and used the kernel options described, but I had add another one; irqpoll to get it to work. The installation would freeze otherwise. Setting AHCI in bios did not work for me.
Also, after upgrading to 2.16.19 I had to take all three kernel options out again or the machine would freeze.
So now it won’t see the DVD.
Anyone any ideas?
Great man… it worked on my core 2 duo E6300 with DG965RY
Wow!!! I am downloading updates from Redhat….
I applied your tweaks to my BIOS settings and added that string at the beginning of the installation process. It worked!
Thank You!!!
System Description
================
(A) Intel DG965WH motherboard
(B) Core2 Duo Processor E6300
(C) 2GB RAM
(D) 500GB SATA Hard Drive
(D) Fedora Core 6 IA-64 Linux
Hallo, everybody.
I am building a fileserver and I have been trying linux install on a DG965WH mobo for almost 2 weeks. I finally found this post and followed your steps, but after booting from the DVD and selecting CD source to install, FC6 just spits the DVD and says that it could not locate a CD/DVD containing the installation. I have tried FC6 and FC6 Unity, both behave the same way. When I press F3, the messages show Anaconda trying to mount the DVD on hda and after some 30 secs another message says “ejecting CD”, I keep trying and it keeps doing the same. Tried AHCI, RAID and IDE, none worked. It is driving me crazy. Plus my job is on the line.
System Description:
Intel DG965WH motherboard
Pentium D915 Dual-Core 2.8 ghz
2GB RAM 667 Kingston
System disk Hitachi HDS721680PLA380 80 GB SATA @ 3 GB/s
Storage disks 3 x Maxtor 6V200E0 200GB SATA @ 3 GB/s
Sony AW-Q170A DVDRW PATA (IDE)
Fedora Core 6 x86_64 *and* Fedora Core 6 Unity x86_64
Tried before Mandriva Free 2007, Ubuntu 6.06 *and* 6.10, Slackware, Debian, CentOS, and none worked. Cannot afford W2003Server licences, *must* be Linux.
What am I doing wrong?
Actually, Windows XP Pro SP2 installed nicelly. Again, cannot afford licence.
So, does this also work the same way for the JMicron controller for SATA drives too? Because openSUSE 10.2 made you install another specific kernel module during install and boot up to load JMicron specific components…
Multi Booting CentOS 4.4 and several openSUSE 10.2 instances
http://bderzhavets.blogspot.com/2007/03/multi-booting-centos-4.html
Linux 2.6.19.2911.6.5.fc6xen (or not xen) on DG965SS
Installs fine does all I want
BUT
no cd rom detected and I would ike to have CDrom (ide-cd)
working..
Has anyone kept pace on this issue.
regards,
Bruce
OK!! Have fair amount of success…
Intel DG965SS set BIOS to be AHCI
Install Fedora Core 6 as per normal and as I install via NFS
from a server with the install media loaded it was straight forward
and simple.. I presume the use of all-generic-ide on the kernel
boot line seems to work, but I’ve not tested it as yet…
Once booted you need to modify /etc/grub.conf and include
all-generic-ide hdb=cdrom on the kernel line (or hda if Cdrom is master device)
rebooting and all should see the cdrom drive….
I’ve not tried a new nVidia driver at this which is my next
job. I’ve also tried Vista and it stalls pretty soon in the
boot process. I presume the virtual environment is not
mature enough to support the new install requirements of Vista
but XP seemed to progress through installation…
My pet peeve at moment is no ducmentation on what
all-generic-ide does.. Indeed I suspect there are a lot
of kernel arguments docmented and a lot not….
Still investigating…
Regards, BRUCE
Though I’ve been using linux for several years, I’ve never installed it. So, as a kind of present to myself, I decided I would build everything up from scratch. Well, it’s not been working out. I’m trying to install Fedora Core 6.
I have an Intel DG965SS mother board. I’ve been trying to follow your advice. In the bios I switched the SATA from IDE to AHCI and then at the boot prompt followed your advice entering
linux all-generic-ide pci=nommconf
Everything seemed to work until I got an error message which wouldn’t let me proceed any further. Something about VolGroup100/LogVol00. I remembered seeing that in your advice somewhere. I tried rebooting, but although the partition seems to have been started on my harddrive, I can’t gain access to it.
I decided to start the install again. This time I get to where the instructions ask about partition my hard drive. When I try to move forward I get the following error message:
“An error has occurred — no valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem.”
What am I doing wrong? DId I completely screw something up? My hardward is all new. I’ve checked all the connections.
How do I proceed from here? And, if you understand how to get around the earlier error message regarding VolGroup, I’d appreciate it. Since nothing seems to have been installed onthe harddrive I don’t know how to follow your advice to change GRUB.
Thanks,
Andrew
This is andrew again. Somehow, I got it passed the inability to find the device. I don’t get that. And now I can get to the other error. It occurs as Fedora Core 6 is formatting the file system and reads as follows:
An error occurred trying to format VolGroup00/LogVol00.. This problem is serious and the install cannot continue. Press to reboot your system.
I have follow your instructions on installing Fedora Core 6 and i have done it on it’s own. But if i want to do a dual boot insalation with windows XP where i have instaled Windows and then Fedora 6 i find that windows will not boot up anymore. Can you help please?
to ICE_BM:
Do you manage to see all the 4 sata disks under ahci mode using kernel 2.6.18.4 or earlier?
I have the same problem with you, only can see 2 sata disks, other 2 SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0).
Your IDE method with ata_piix.ko does work, but I still want to know how to make ahci work? thanks.
[ 53.362457] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xDFBF2100 ctl 0×0 bmdma 0×0 irq 19
[ 53.362686] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xDFBF2180 ctl 0×0 bmdma 0×0 irq 19
[ 53.362820] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xDFBF2200 ctl 0×0 bmdma 0×0 irq 19
[ 53.362955] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xDFBF2280 ctl 0×0 bmdma 0×0 irq 19
[ 53.362966] scsi1 : ahci
[ 53.845835] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 53.846585] ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 53.846592] ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16
[ 53.847495] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 53.847545] scsi2 : ahci
[ 54.341396] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 54.342144] ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 54.342151] ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 16
[ 54.343084] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 54.343134] scsi3 : ahci
[ 54.665117] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
[ 54.665135] scsi4 : ahci
[ 54.976835] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
[ 54.977019] Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250820AS Rev: 3.AA
[ 54.977354] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[ 54.991315] SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
[ 54.991455] sdb: Write Protect is off
[ 54.991544] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 54.991656] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
[ 54.991797] SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
[ 54.991912] sdb: Write Protect is off
[ 54.991978] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 54.992104] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
[ 54.992172] sdb: unknown partition table
[ 55.001239] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
[ 55.017004] Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250820AS Rev: 3.AA
[ 55.017348] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[ 55.036661] SCSI device sdc: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
[ 55.036708] sdc: Write Protect is off
[ 55.036712] sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 55.036775] SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
[ 55.046766] SCSI device sdc: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
[ 55.049911] sdc: Write Protect is off
[ 55.049960] sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 55.050170] SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
[ 55.051891] sdc: unknown partition table
[ 55.061670] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc
Folks having difficulties: a ray of light may be on the horizon. Ubuntu Feisty Fawn is getting official release on 4/19/07, which I think will help address a lot of the hardware problems people have been experiencing. *fingers crossed*
Andrew, I am getting the exact same error. I even reformatted the harddrive using my laptop and tried to install FC6 again, but I still get the Vol error. Can anyone help us? Thanks.
thanx … it is working !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks & God bless you!!!!
I have two SATA disk but grub dont works with both
please how do i do in order to setup this ?
one disk has XP and Fedora6 and second disk have UBUNTU
thanks
Thanks a million! I had spent the whole day, and finally I found your article. With your advice I succeeded in installing Centos 5 with DQ965 motherboard. The interface card (on the board) works fine - don’t know yet about the optical drive.
I has the followin configuration
Core 2 Duo 6420
Intel DG 965 RY motherboard
160 GB sata hard drive
1 GB kingston RAM
I was trying to install FC 6. Earlier it was showing it does not find the driver. I change the SATA frim IDE to AHCI. FC 6 installation starts, but it was not able to see the patitions on disk. It takes the whole hard drive. I want to run Windows XP and FC 6 on the same machine.
you’ve saved my life.
very very very nice post. Worked on centos too.
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i have facing some problem my pc is core2 duo processor and sata hdd seagate i cant install linux fedora core 5
I did your work around, I noticed that the installation was sooooo slow… was the installation slow on your end?
Very nice post indeed!!!
Unfortunately didn’t work for me! Well it worked but after I installed fedora and rebooted the machine I got the following errors:
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 5 of device 0000:00:12.0
ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0×1
Red hat nash version 5.1.19 starting
ata2: softreset failed (1st FIS failed)
ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs)
ata2: COMRESET failed (device not ready)
ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs)
ata2: COMRESET failed (device not ready)
ata2: reset failed, giving up
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while…
No volume groups found
Volume group “VolGroup00″ not found0000000 @ 8000-d000
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
mount: could not find filesystem ‘/dev/root’
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
No idea whats this all about!
Can somebody please help me?
Thanks guys!!
you are the best
I have a intel 945 original mother board. With sata hdd. the linux fedora core 5 installing fine. But the nic drivers are not getting loaded. From where can i get the nic drivers for linux fedora core 5, and how should i load them
i have 965ry motherboard, intel 2,13 core 2 duo processor sony dvd writer, 1 gb ram. but i could not install linux fedora core 6. during installation some driver missing. please help
An error occurred trying to format VolGroup00/LogVol00.. This problem is serious and the install cannot continue. Press to reboot your system.
Andrew & Shannon both got the above error, I now have this too
Has anybody thats seen this during the installation found a solution?
thanks
Hi
Core 2 Duo 6420
Intel DG 965 motherboard
160 GB sata hard drive
1 GB kingston RAM
problem in install fc6 give me some solution
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Hello Everybody
Just wanted to share my new experience.
If your system fails to run due to an error corresponding to missing HAL.DLL, invalid Boot.ini or any other important system boot files you can fix this by using the XP installation CD. Just boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console. Then launch “attrib -H -R -S” on the C:\Boot.ini file and remove it. Launch “Bootcfg /Rebuild” and then Fixboot
Cheers,
Carl
I have another problem can anybody help?
which flavor of fedora is compatible with core 2 duo processor? My system
is Intel core2duo E4500@ 2.2GHz,945 motherboard with fedora 6.But in
that on-board NIC card is not detected.Pls help