This is a follow up to my battle of wills with this machine :)
1) I have managed to get this beastie to boot off the SATA drive
- I had to change the disk access mode from DOS to OTHER in the BIOS
- I had to disable the floppy settings in the BIOS (no floppy drive in
the machine, but it was enabled in the bios)
After these two changes (oh, and reinstalling the machine), the machine
worked fine. I had made the change in the bios and done a grub-
install /dev/sda from chroot in rescue mode, but it panicd in the
nv_sata coming back up. I'm guessing the different geometry settings
caused it to barf.
2) The kernel/linux does *NOT* see the 3Ware card, which is in the 64
bit 133Mhz slot. Which according to the diagram at
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html is on Bridge A.
Here is the listing for lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
01:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV45GL [Quadro FX 3400/4400] (rev a2)
80:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
80:01.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
80:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
80:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
Should I not see the card? I wonder if this chipset is not fully
supported by the 2.6.9-11ELspm kernel? Or does anyone have any
suggestions for kernel flags?
In dmesg output I see
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.00.039.
3w-xxxx: No cards found.
I could try moving the 3Ware card to one of the slower PCI-X slots and
see if that helps. Perhaps, I will give this a whirl manana. I am at
least encouraged that the bloody thing installs and boots on its own :)
Sean
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Sean O'Connell
Office of Engineering Computing oconnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD 858.534.9716 (49716)
