[9fans] Re: install problems

[9fans] Re: install problems

[John Stalker]

 From  "A.S. Kukhar" <plan9@kp.km.ua>
>hi,
>i have geforce2 mx 400 64mb card (on
>MSI K7T266Pro2-U VIA KT266A motherboard)
>and when booting from install floppy i
>get the following:
>
>	pcirouting: South bridge 1106, 3177 not found
>and
>	pcirouting: South bridge 1106/3177 unknown
>
>graphics mode is allright but partdisk
>founds only my cdrom device:
>
>	sdD0 - SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L C100COM
>
>(vgainfo.txt and pci.txt are attached)
>any help would be great, thanks
>-kyxap

I also got the pcirouting messages on that motherboard.  I "fixed" it by
adding a few lines in pci.c to recognize the southbridge, which is a
VT8235, and do the generic VIA chipset initialization.  I wrote fixed
in quotation marks because the only observable effect was that the error
message disappeared.  David Hogan subsequently pointed out that recognizing
the southbridge is only important as a workaround for some buggy BIOSes,
so you can probably ignore it.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469

Re: [9fans] Re: install problems

[A.S. Kukhar]

ok, but why partdisk can`t find my hard disk partitions?

-kyxap


> From  "A.S. Kukhar" <plan9@kp.km.ua>
>
> >hi,
> >i have geforce2 mx 400 64mb card (on
> >MSI K7T266Pro2-U VIA KT266A motherboard)
> >and when booting from install floppy i
> >get the following:
> >
> >	pcirouting: South bridge 1106, 3177 not found
> >and
> >	pcirouting: South bridge 1106/3177 unknown
> >
> >graphics mode is allright but partdisk
> >founds only my cdrom device:
> >
> >	sdD0 - SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L C100COM
> >
> >(vgainfo.txt and pci.txt are attached)
> >any help would be great, thanks
> >-kyxap
>
> I also got the pcirouting messages on that motherboard.
> I "fixed" it by adding a few lines in pci.c to recognize
> the southbridge, which is a VT8235, and do the generic
> VIA chipset initialization.  I wrote fixed in quotation
> marks because the only observable effect was that the
> error message disappeared.  David Hogan subsequently
> pointed out that recognizing the southbridge is only
> important as a workaround for some buggy BIOSes, so you
> can probably ignore it.
> --
> John Stalker
> Department of Mathematics
> Princeton University
> (609)258-6469

[9fans] Re: Install problems

[John Stalker]

> ok, but why partdisk can`t find my hard disk partitions?

I don't know, so I was hoping someone else would suggest something.
It would help to know a bit more about the hardware, though.  Is
this IDE or SCSI, one or more disks, etc.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
(609)258-6469