Re: [Sheflug] intel 440bx

[Matthew Collins <matthew [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:33:05PM +0100, Pete Collier wrote:
> I have an old pentium II 350 on a 440bx board and I'm having various problems 
> getting Linux to install correctly. Also tried win98 and that was giving 
> errors but I'm not bothered about win98, just did it out of curiosity to see 

>From what I remember there can be problem with this chipset using the
generic drivers.

I don't know if there's a command line you can pass while booting to
make sure that it doesn't try and use DMA.

You'll also want to compile a kernel with PIIX support (this is in the
hard disk drivers section).

Hope this gives you some pointers.

> if I got any pointers. All I keep getting is illegal this and that which 
> didn't tell me anything. I vaguely remember seeing something on the fedora 
> archives somewhere in the past about this problem on this board and that 
> there was a solution but can't find it. Has anyone any ideas on a work around 
> or where to look. I've spent about an hour on google without anything 
> positive although I'll admit there's plenty there.
> 
> Peter C
> ps. tried different memory chips, hard drives, cables etc incase they were 
> faulty.
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