FC6-T2 (DVD) won't boot on Core 2 Duo setup

Drew Bertola drew at drewb.com
Sat Aug 12 21:53:58 UTC 2006


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:10:50PM -0700, Drew Bertola wrote:
>   
>> I may just go get a PATA->SATA converter to hook up the DVD burner to 
>> one of the ICH8 ports, rather than the JMicron PATA port.
>>
>> If I get a chance, I'll try this approach with the FC6-t2 DVD install.
>>     
>
> FC6t2 will ceash on boot with a Jmicron chip present owing to a really dumb
> mistake I made. The good news is that Jmicron stuff including PATA should all
> work by 2.6.18 final as I've sent a fix.

Thanks Alan.  For now I'll just try with the Jmicron disabled and the 
DVD jimmied up to the ICH8 controller with a converter.

Hopefully, that will get me far enough along to try t2. 

Will the changes in 2.6.18 be in t3 kernel?

--
Drew




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