Playing around with my new media center PC at the moment.
Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy (daily build from Oct 13th) installed without too many problems yesterday, most of the hardware on my Abit AB9 pro motherboard was detected out of the box.
However the ethernet controller, a Realtek 8111B, card was not detected.
From lspci I got Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8168 (rev 01) and after a quick look in google I found this article on how to get the card working. Worked great, just download, change the three MODULE_PARM lines in the src to MODULE_PARM_DESC and it compiles ok.
A few notes on installing Linux on the AB9 motherboard though, a few thought from my experience. First of all, use a very recent version of Linux. Ubuntu 6.10 worked for me and I'd expect Fedora Core 6 would work.
Use the jmicron controller, not the ICH8R controller for the disk and optical drive.
Another thing, which I think is just related to me not having used debian/ubuntu enough. After I partitioned my disk and create ext3 file systems using labels I was unable to mount using LABEL=foo, turns out I had to restart the udev service before they showed up. In CentOS, they just appear under the dev-mapper.
I'm quite impressed on how good it looks on my LCD television. Even xvid files in HDTV resolution look great.
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Thanks for the ab9 tips Halis! I was loosing patience when both the JMicron and the Network card wouldn't allow me to get Ubuntu 6.06 installed.
Ive downloaded Ubuntu 6.10, and all I get is the "UBUNTU" loading screen with the progress bar going left to right. After about 10mins, it displays IDE errors.
Are you using a Abit AB9 motherboard?
If so, make sure you are indeed using the JMicron controller (between the PCI slots, not the six ports to the lower right of the motherboard or the single port).
If you still are getting errors please make sure you disable "Legacy OS USB support" in the BIOS and try running the installer with the irqpoll option.
I have just got an AB9Pro and decided to set it up as a dual boot with FC-6 and Win XP Pro...
I had problems getting it to boot with the original IDE drive, so tried using a new drive plugged in to the JMicron connectors, as suggested and am going now but am wondering what the problem is with the other six (Intel?) SATA connectors? I am a bit worried about some of the things I have been reading about FC-6 stuffing the drive partition tables etc?
Any observations would be gratefully received!
Regards
Chris Parsons
I'm planning to build an Ubuntu system with six 500GB SATA drives in a software RAID-5 configuration. I'd also like to use a SATA optical drive. I'm attracted to the AB9Pro because of the nine SATA ports. However, if you really can only boot from the two JMicron SATA ports, won't that cause problems for my 6-disk software RAID configuration? Do I need to make it a 5-disk RAID array and reserve one disk for booting?
i've tried to install ubuntu feisty on a abit ab9 MB but it's impossible to have it running. So i tried ubuntu 6.10. In this last case, i disabled Usb support in the bios and i passed to the boot the option irqpoll and noapic (quiet and spalsh options were deleted). However... now i have all the usb interfaces down and can't have the mouse working properly. Ubuntu is not yet installed :( I will let you know about my "Odissea".
Bye, Stefano - Italy
After about 1 hour: ubuntu 6.10 installed but first of all the mouse is k.o. and then, after upgrading packages, the system hangs after grub and there is no way to get ubuntu restarted.
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