Not sure if your Googling has already taken you down this road but somebody else with that chipset was able to boot using this: Bios option : ACHI mode for SATA booting time command: linux pci=nommconf On 10/12/06, Sam Martin <s.earl.martin at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/12/06, Joey Rockhold <joey.rockhold at gmail.com> wrote: > > 3) Set up FreeNX on your home machine > > That's not a bad idea, but my home network connection's a little > spotty, and my desktop machine at home is a 933mhz pentium III. I > want to play with the core 2 duo... sigh. > > > On 10/12/06, Joey Rockhold <joey.rockhold at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 1) If you have the fortune to be able to install Windows Server on > > > your machine, you could download the free VMWare server and install > > > Linux within there. Then configure and run the VMWare console on the > > > same machine. Or, get VMWare workstation, which does not need a > > > server version of Windows. > > That would probably work, and I may end up going that route. I'm on > WinXP, but you can use easyvmx.com to create an empty virtual machine > that'll work with VMWare player. It's not as nice as Workstation, but > it's pretty handy (and free). I regularly use VMWare player from a > Linux workstation to test Windows software (we license a third-party > wince/palm app with a windows-only conduit at work, so I have to be > able to test it), so I guess doing the reverse for a while won't kill > me. > > > > > 2) Try a live distrobution. > > That'd be my first choice (the beast has 2GB of RAM, so I was looking > forward to running a livecd with the "toram" option), but I can't get > one to boot. Knoppix, Slax, DSL, Mepis (I've grown quite a collection > of live cds over the years)... I'll play with the boot args to see if > I get lucky, but none of the CDs I tried could recognize my dvd drive > during the boot process. > > > sm > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Donovan Niesen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061012/c4a3b9cf/attachment.htm