I have had knoppmyth running previously (a couple revs ago) on a system I built modeled on the Dragon. It uses an Intel DG965WH motherboard.

For the previous version or two, and now including R6, I can't get it to install. The splashscreen comes up and starts the install from CD, then it looks like it suddenly can't find the PATA CD-ROM drive or the SATA hard drive.

In previous versions I tried both the dragon option and the intel-fix option. It didn't help. According to Intel, I should set my HD in the BIOS to AHCI (with a SATA drive). This works fine with the existing old version of knoppmyth.

So... now with R6, I get the following... it boots from the CD to the splash screen and begins installing. The install quickly fails with this:

(I have no way to capture the screen, so excuse the abbreviations)

EXT2-fs: sda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (4).
... not /dev/sda1
... not /dev/sda2
EXT-fs warning (device sda3): ext_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
... /dev/sda3 mounted but no 'larch/larchboot' found
:: Searching for USB CD ROMS ..
attempt to access beyond end of device
sr0: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16
... not /dev/sr0

This repeats then eventually says:
ERROR: Sorry, couldn't find boot medium ...


According to Intel tech support, you need to use the following options when installing linux:

- Use the boot parameter: all-generic-ide

- use the boot parameter: pci=nommconf

But I don't see how I can enter them??h

Any ideas? I'd REALLY like to make my system work with a new rev!

Good luck with your problem. R6 does not seem to support the ability to interrupt the cd grub boot and add parameters. I couldn't get it to install either, and have had no answers to this thread.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19796

Not exactly the same problem but the same symptom that you can't install it. I tried to install Arch, and was able to interrupt the boot and add additional parms but still could not even get a standalone ARCH to install.

Tim

I have not tried with 6.00.08, but I thought you could press <TAB> and edit the kernel boot parameters. See the comments made by Cecil here regarding an unrelated issue.

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You can.

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cesman

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Wish I had known that a month ago.

I tried the method used by Arch. E, to edit and then press 'B' to boot.

Interesting.

Any suggestions on which options to try?

Looks like a good place to start,

How can I enter more than one option?

If you're using R6 (GRUB) you can simply string them together. I dunno about R5.5 (LILO) but I would think the same would apply. Example /boot/grub/menu.lst from my Arch box using bootchart:

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