I've been trying on and off for a while, and without luck, to install Linux on one of my "test lab" machines. These machines have quad-core Intel processors on Asus P5K SE motherboards, which feature a Marvell PATA IDE controller. I'd tried a good number of distributions including the latest RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mandriva releases but none of them would recognize the CD/DVD drive during installation. I did eventually manage to install Fedora 7 over the network but applications kept crashing due to kernel panics. After some research it seems that the Linux Kernel needed updating to support this motherboard and its chipset.
This morning I downloaded Fedora 8 Test 2, which was released about a week ago and the install ran absolutely smoothly and I saw it specifically load a "pata_marvell" driver, which was reassuring.
The only problem now is that the final release of FC8 is still about six weeks away so I just hope this test release is stable enough for my needs.
Andy Grove's Blog
Fedora 8 Test 2 supports Asus P5K mobo :-)
Saturday, 22 September 2007
1 Comments:
Hello, glad to here you succeded installing your distro, i myself am trying to install slackware 12, but with no success as when i get to the setup interface, slack cant find the source media on the DVD, ive read that the marvell ide controller is problematic unfortunaly, but if you have any success with slack, please put it up in your blog!
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