Those of you who were at the last meet at Syleham will recall the difficulty I had getting Linux to install with my Abit BE6 motherboard's ATA66 IDE controller. Gentus Linux http://www.gentus.com/ seems to be an answer to this problem, a Red Hat based distro from the makers of the offending motherboard specifically targeted at the ATA66 IDE controller problem. I'm downloading it at the moment 675Mb over 56k modem link! So anybody trying to give me a voice call expect an answer sometime after Euro 2004. :-) Cheers, BJ
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 09:31:53PM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
Those of you who were at the last meet at Syleham will recall the difficulty I had getting Linux to install with my Abit BE6 motherboard's ATA66 IDE controller.
I haven't got it working yet either and have opted for just using UDMA-33. But, to be honest, I haven't tried since I fixed my faulty BP6 board that Abit sent me. At the time I wasn't sure whether the freeze ups were the faulty board or the ATA66 stuff.
Gentus Linux http://www.gentus.com/ seems to be an answer to this problem, a Red Hat based distro from the makers of the offending motherboard specifically targeted at the ATA66 IDE controller problem.
There is no reason that Gentus should be better. Just download the kernel source package from Gentus, then compile and run it on another distro. I am using Debian and have all of the nice sensors stuff set up. A combination of lm_sensors and bp6mon (http://www.goupilfr.org/creations/) is nice too.
I'm downloading it at the moment 675Mb over 56k modem link! So anybody trying to give me a voice call expect an answer sometime after Euro 2004. :-)
I have a CD of Gentus that came with my mobo. I can copy it if you like? -- (o_ | Toby Jaffey : www.nott.ac.uk/~psystrj/ //\ | "Ummm, Trouble with grammar have I! Yes!" -Yoda- V_/_ |
Thanks for the offer of a copy of Gentus Toby if this download bombs out I'll take you up on the offer. It is supposed to work with ATA66 and the new ATA100 IDE controllers that come with Abit boards. The idea is that you can install directly on an ATA66 controlled drive rather than using UDMA33 and patching the Kernel than transferring the drive over to ATA66. Download started at 14:30 it's now 00:15 ish and I've got 27% of it! I didn't really want to talk to anybody this week anyway. :-) Cheers, BJ
-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Toby Jaffey Sent: 04 July 2000 23:46 To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Gentus Linux
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 09:31:53PM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
Those of you who were at the last meet at Syleham will recall the difficulty I had getting Linux to install with my Abit BE6 motherboard's ATA66 IDE controller.
I haven't got it working yet either and have opted for just using UDMA-33.
But, to be honest, I haven't tried since I fixed my faulty BP6 board that Abit sent me. At the time I wasn't sure whether the freeze ups were the faulty board or the ATA66 stuff.
Gentus Linux http://www.gentus.com/ seems to be an answer to this problem, a Red Hat based distro from the makers of the offending motherboard specifically targeted at the ATA66 IDE controller problem.
There is no reason that Gentus should be better. Just download the kernel source package from Gentus, then compile and run it on another distro.
I am using Debian and have all of the nice sensors stuff set up. A combination of lm_sensors and bp6mon (http://www.goupilfr.org/creations/) is nice too.
I'm downloading it at the moment 675Mb over 56k modem link! So anybody trying to give me a voice call expect an answer sometime after Euro 2004. :-)
I have a CD of Gentus that came with my mobo. I can copy it if you like?
-- (o_ | Toby Jaffey : www.nott.ac.uk/~psystrj/ //\ | "Ummm, Trouble with grammar have I! Yes!" -Yoda-
V_/_ |
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:17:32AM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
Thanks for the offer of a copy of Gentus Toby if this download bombs out I'll take you up on the offer.
ok. I'm hanging around on #alug on openprojects.net till god knows what time this morning if you want to chat about bp6s and stuff.... :) -- ___ ___ (o o) A big enough hammer fixes anything (o o) ( V ) ( V ) /--m-m-----------------------www.nott.ac.uk/~psystrj-------------------m-m--\
Nah! I'm off to bed now mate, got to get the kids up for school in the morning. :-( I'll let you all know how I get on with my mammoth download though. Cheers, BJ
-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Toby Jaffey Sent: 05 July 2000 00:24 To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Gentus Linux
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:17:32AM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
Thanks for the offer of a copy of Gentus Toby if this download bombs out I'll take you up on the offer.
ok.
I'm hanging around on #alug on openprojects.net till god knows what time this morning if you want to chat about bp6s and stuff.... :)
-- ___ ___ (o o) A big enough hammer fixes anything (o o) ( V ) ( V )
/--m-m-----------------------www.nott.ac.uk/~psystrj-------------- -----m-m--\
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, John Woodard wrote:
Gentus Linux http://www.gentus.com/ seems to be an answer to this problem, a Red Hat based distro from the makers of the offending motherboard specifically targeted at the ATA66 IDE controller problem.
I'm downloading it at the moment 675Mb over 56k modem link! So anybody trying to give me a voice call expect an answer sometime after Euro 2004. :-)
Hmmm, maybe you would be interested in this story from the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11744.html looks like you could just download the source or patches instead of the full 675MB (ouch that would really hurt on dialup) and have a go with that, -- Adam Bower, <abower@zeus.com> Tel: +44 1223 525000 System Administrator Fax: +44 1223 525100 Zeus Technology Ltd http://www.zeus.com Newton House, Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge. CB4 OWZ. England
Sources are there but finding what is required is a nightmare. I've got 60% of the ISO now so I should get the rest by tomorrow morning. Cheers, BJ
-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Adam Bower Sent: 05 July 2000 09:59 To: ALUG Subject: Re: [Alug] Gentus Linux
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, John Woodard wrote:
Gentus Linux http://www.gentus.com/ seems to be an answer to this problem, a Red Hat based distro from the makers of the offending motherboard specifically targeted at the ATA66 IDE controller problem.
I'm downloading it at the moment 675Mb over 56k modem link! So anybody trying to give me a voice call expect an answer sometime after Euro 2004. :-)
Hmmm, maybe you would be interested in this story from the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11744.html
looks like you could just download the source or patches instead of the full 675MB (ouch that would really hurt on dialup) and have a go with that,
-- Adam Bower, <abower@zeus.com> Tel: +44 1223 525000 System Administrator Fax: +44 1223 525100 Zeus Technology Ltd http://www.zeus.com Newton House, Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge. CB4 OWZ. England
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