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    Phenom II's and Ubuntu/Knoppix/DSL- "Kernel Not Found"

    Hi,

    I've recently bought a new phenom II & 790GX bundle and having no end of problems trying to install operating systems on it due to lack of other working pc's to build slipstream xp discs on or get floppy drives working on.

    I thought i'd give Ubuntu Live 8.10 cd a go on the new machine to at least have it running, and i get a "No Kernal Found" error. Tried DSL 3.3, Knoppix 4. something, and getting the same thing. I believe it's due to them detecting it's a amd64 architecture, and trying to use the appropriate 64 bit kernel, which i don't have.

    Is there any way that i can force ( through command line options at boot time) knoppix, dsl, ubuntu to run in 32bit mode so i can at least get access to the floppy drive and hard drives on the machine?

    Ta in advance!

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    Re: Phenom II's and Ubuntu/Knoppix/DSL- "Kernel Not Found"

    Which motherboard exactly?
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    Re: Phenom II's and Ubuntu/Knoppix/DSL- "Kernel Not Found"

    Go into your BIOS settings, and make damn sure that your SATA ports are all configured to use AHCI mode, not Legacy or IDE Emulation or RAID or anything like that

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    Re: Phenom II's and Ubuntu/Knoppix/DSL- "Kernel Not Found"

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    Go into your BIOS settings, and make damn sure that your SATA ports are all configured to use AHCI mode, not Legacy or IDE Emulation or RAID or anything like that
    Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H. Yep, all AHCI

    Just managed to get a hold of ubuntu 8.10 amd64 on a friends USB stick, which boots up from USB happy without a single problem or changing any bios settings.

    Oh well. Would still be interested in an answer to the original question - any way of forcing 32bit mode using a boot time kernel switch?

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    Re: Phenom II's and Ubuntu/Knoppix/DSL- "Kernel Not Found"

    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfsbane2k View Post
    Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H. Yep, all AHCI

    Just managed to get a hold of ubuntu 8.10 amd64 on a friends USB stick, which boots up from USB happy without a single problem or changing any bios settings.

    Oh well. Would still be interested in an answer to the original question - any way of forcing 32bit mode using a boot time kernel switch?
    Doesn't work like that. The i386 media doesn't do any magic - it simply boots the kernel it's under orders to boot (as decided in isolinux.cfg). Sounds like a strange bug with your chipset or possibly with the i386 release which prevent it from running on your hardware (breakage is not unusual for ATI chipsets on Linux)

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