ferret Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I have an ASUS P5B motherboard(basic model) and a core2 duo 2.13 6400 with and antec 650 power supply and 2 x 1 gb sticks of kingston ddr2 800 ram. My graphics card is a Nvidia geforce 7600 gs. I have a floppy drive and 1 dvd burner(not on the same connection cable) My harddrive is a sata drive hooked up with of course a sata cable. I have windows xp home installed and everything works perfect except I CAN USE ANYTHING LINUX AT ALL. I can't install any linux distro or use any live dvds/cds. When I try to use a linux live disk an error message comes up that says can't find file system for mepis(example) halted! or Can't find knoppix filesystem, sorry. dropping you to a(very limited shell). press, reset to quit. Additional built in commands avaliable. CAT MOUNT UNMOUNT INSMOD RMMOD ISMOD kNOPPIX#_ I have tried 5 different optical drives and checked the ram and its fine. I tried with just 1 stick with no luck. Is something in the bios settings the problem. Thanks for any input. Great show! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uber_tom Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 errrm are you trying to install Linux onto your HDD, have you used fdisk (the linux one, not the dos one) to create a linux filesystem. As for live cd's, i've never liked them myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 I'm just trying to use the same disks I have been using for years on my other computers. I am unable to install or use the live dvd/cds. I think I need to change something in the bios. Since I'm a noob thats why I am asking the experts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Not sure, though I wonder what possible issues the SATA HDD could cause, depending on the distro... I suspect that most live CDs are lacking the appropriate drivers... I could be wrong though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 Damn, I posted this a few times on other forums with no luck. Darren are you out there? Help! Help! the noob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spektormax Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I have seen issues with SATA at school, what linux distro are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 I have seen issues with SATA at school, what linux distro are you using? I have tried about 12 different ones so far with no luck. Fedora core 5 and 6, Unbuntu 6.06 and the latest, Mepis 6, knoppix(4 different verisons), pcliuxos, Damn small linux(newest version), Dream, etc. I was trying everyone I could find. Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephid Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Have you tried to disable ACPI or APM on bootup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 I will try that now. I just tried to disable acpi and apm and it didn't work. Still gets errors when trying to load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 Update! After trying 14 different linux distros I found 1 that worked. Mandriva 2007 free worked. I can't believe thats the only one that worked. What does Mandriva know about Core 2 duo and Asus motherboards that the other do not know? I guess its a start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Do you get the error while booting the live CD, or after you've installed the distro onto your harddisk? If it's the former, please describe your dvd burner(-connection) in more detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 I get the error with live cds/dvds and with the install disks. I have 1 harddrive setup with Sata cable. 1 floppy drive set up on its own. my combo dvd/cd drive is IDE and has nothing else attached to it. I have tried 7 different cd and dvd drives. I also had 2 drives connected before at first and that didn't work either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Just for giggles, throw freeBSD on it. I've had much more luck re: hardware with freeBSD than linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 btw you cant have a floppy and a optical drive on the same cable. ther is no floppy IDE drvies and FDD cables cant be daisy chained :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 btw you cant have a floppy and a optical drive on the same cable.ther is no floppy IDE drvies Oh? News to me - SuperDisk drives have been sold in parallel port, USB, ATAPI and SCSI variants. All drives can read and write 1.44 MB (1440 KiB) and 720 kB (720 KiB) MFM floppies, as used on PCs, Apple Macintoshes produced 1988–1998, and many workstations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk SuperDisk ftw! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 btw you cant have a floppy and a optical drive on the same cable.ther is no floppy IDE drvies and FDD cables cant be daisy chained :) No they are not together. Just 1 on separate cables. I even tried disconnecting the floppy drive but of course that didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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