Re: The system works (2.6.14-rc2): functional k8n-dl

[Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>]

On 22.09.2005 [17:29:56 -0400], Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> 
> Nish,
> 
> OK, I can confirm that with version 1006 of the BIOS it works flawlessly
> with Linux. I was able to install full FC4 and boot without a problem
> even with the SATA disk plugged to the nVidia controller (reading the
> archives you will see that the nVidia SATA controller is something I
> was simply unable to get working.) I didn't need to recompile anything.
> The kernel that came with FC4 worked just fine.

Great!

> This is great news. That box had been sitting on my rack for the past
> couple of months because I was just not able to get Linux to work
> properly. I had figured I would put a cheap network card in there just
> to get things started, but it really wasn't doing what I bought it
> for. Now it works as would be expected.

That's actually why I bothered sending out a report. I had *no* problems
booting with "noapic nolapic pci=noacpi" with BIOS revisions 1003 and
1004. When I saw that both you and Sean had problems, I figured I would
let you know what progress I was making.

> Hopefully next time ASUS releases a board they actually test that it
> works with all major OSes before making the release. In this case, I
> feel as if I was tricked into buying a board that really didn't perform
> as planned, and as a result I wasted lots of time which could been for
> more productive work.

Again, I find it odd that it worked OOB for me (with the aforementioned
boot params).

Regardless, I'm glad it is working for you now.

Thanks,
Nish