Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
>
>>I got a new motherboard/cpu (Intel DG965WH w/Intel CPU Pentium D 820
>>2.8Ghz dual core.
>>I took a working fed 6 HD and stuck it in and it wont boot,
>
>
> What kind of hard disk, SATA or PATA? You must use the "all-generic-ide"
> kernel option to access any PATA drives. If it's a SATA disk make sure
> the SATA controller is set in AHCI mode in the BIOS.
>
>
>>When I select CDROM (duh, I just boot from there), it says:
>>
>>unable to find any devices of the type
>>needed for this install type.
>>Would you like to manually select your
>>driver or use a driver disk?
>>
>>OPTIONS: Select Driver Use Driver Disk
>>
>>At this point Im lost. Is it saying that it no longer has a driver
>>for the CD rom its
>>reading the disk from? If so why not?? How did I get this far?
>
>
> Again, you need to use the "all-generic-ide" option to use PATA drives.
> The kernel and the initial RAM disk image are read using BIOS code, but
> you need a Linux driver to proceed past this point.
>
>
>>I tried putting in another HD and installing fed 6 from scratch, but
>>it
>>complains about the same issue. With a new motherboard and CPU I
>>didnt
>>think this would be an issue.
>
>
> The motherboard is _too_ new. You would need kernel 2.6.20 or later to
> use the Marvell PATA controller without any extra options. The FC6
> installer uses kernel 2.6.18.
>

You could try out Fedora core 7 test 2:

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

the FC7 Test 2 just got posted today on there, I bet it has 2.6.20 in it.
I have FC7 Test 1 on my laptop and it's at 2.6.20 something for the
kernel. You could just try the f7-test2-livecd-i386 and use it to
confirm that it works on your hardware before having to
commit anything to disk. It depends on what you want to use
this machine for and if you can accept some occasional odd occurances
(something will work, you do an update and it quits working, then
a day or two later another yum update will fix it..)



Mark