64-bit FC3 on nForce4 motherboards

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Brian Stretch wrote:

> Has anyone successfully migrated a 64-bit FC3 machine to a nForce4 
> chipset (PCI-Express) motherboard?  I get a kernel panic very quickly 
> during bootup, right after it fails to mount the drives (boot drive is 
> Serial ATA, nForce controller).  There are two PCI errors too.  The 
> weird thing is that I can boot linux rescue off the FC3 DVD and read 
> my drives just fine.  I had to move my HDs back to my old system to 
> get online so I'm hoping someone can at least tell me if they have 
> successfully run FC3 on a nForce4 chipset system.
>
Maybe an issue with fstab?? What's the chipset on the nForce... Silicon 
Image??? In that case, FC kernels have a MAJOR flaw: they include both 
the drivers there are for it ATA and SATA... This is wrong because these 
two drivers are MUTUALLY exclussive. I haven't known a single FC 
official kernel that properly supports SII 311x controller. One reason 
to build your own.