Not sure if your Googling has already taken you down this road but somebody else with that chipset was able to boot using this:<br><br>
Bios option : ACHI mode for SATA<br>
booting time command:<br>
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linux pci=nommconf<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sam Martin</b> <<a href="mailto:s.earl.martin@gmail.com">s.earl.martin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/12/06, Joey Rockhold <<a href="mailto:joey.rockhold@gmail.com">joey.rockhold@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> 3) Set up FreeNX on your home machine<br><br>That's not a bad idea, but my home network connection's a little
<br>spotty, and my desktop machine at home is a 933mhz pentium III. I<br>want to play with the core 2 duo... sigh.<br><br>> On 10/12/06, Joey Rockhold <<a href="mailto:joey.rockhold@gmail.com">joey.rockhold@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> > 1) If you have the fortune to be able to install Windows Server on<br>> > your machine, you could download the free VMWare server and install<br>> > Linux within there. Then configure and run the VMWare console on the
<br>> > same machine. Or, get VMWare workstation, which does not need a<br>> > server version of Windows.<br><br>That would probably work, and I may end up going that route. I'm on<br>WinXP, but you can use
<a href="http://easyvmx.com">easyvmx.com</a> to create an empty virtual machine<br>that'll work with VMWare player. It's not as nice as Workstation, but<br>it's pretty handy (and free). I regularly use VMWare player from a
<br>Linux workstation to test Windows software (we license a third-party<br>wince/palm app with a windows-only conduit at work, so I have to be<br>able to test it), so I guess doing the reverse for a while won't kill<br>me.
<br><br><br>> > 2) Try a live distrobution.<br><br>That'd be my first choice (the beast has 2GB of RAM, so I was looking<br>forward to running a livecd with the "toram" option), but I can't get<br>one to boot. Knoppix, Slax, DSL, Mepis (I've grown quite a collection
<br>of live cds over the years)... I'll play with the boot args to see if<br>I get lucky, but none of the CDs I tried could recognize my dvd drive<br>during the boot process.<br><br><br>sm<br><br>_______________________________________________
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