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Invisible wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>
>> Many motherboards are using the Marvell IDE controller - which is
>> currently not supported by most Linux distributions.
>>
>> So while it starts booting fine, when it hands off to the kernel
>> everything comes to a screeching halt because it cannot find the CD.
>
> Interesting...
>
> My motherboard uses the nVidia nForce 4 chipset, and as a result many
> Linux live CDs can't see any of the SATA drives. However, they all find
> the PATA ones just fine.
>
> (I remember seeing "Marvell" and thinking "oo, that's what I have". But
> it isn't. I have a Marvell NIC. The IDE controller is nVidia.)
>
> I discovered that many if not most live CDs can be coaxed into seeing
> the drives by manually executing a modprobe command. (No, I have no idea
> which one... and it wouldn't help you anyway.)
>
That's what I ran across - I just didn't have the energy to dig into
which one.
I guess I should learn it sometime as this PC is going to have this
issue for a while and I plan on doing some fun Linux things with it.
Tom
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