Hello All,

Today I got another chance to try live cds on the 965 RYCK with core 2 duo. I tried the Knoppix 5.11 DVD and the DreamLinux 2.2 Live/Install CD ( Morphix Deb based ) that came with this month's LFY. :P

In both the disks, the initial boot screen appeared and the Kernel/Image was loaded. when the detection stsrted, it threw up the error of not finding the media files.

What puzzles me is that if the PATA support for 965 boards is not yet come out in Linux distros except FC6 and Sabayon, why does the live distro CD even show the boot prompt and load the initial image/kernel? I even got the starting logos and splash screens.

Then why does the distro not go on to *fully* load, irrespective of not detecting PATA drivers? If it cannot load PATA drivers, why does it not run on the generic drivers as it begins initially. The initial data came from reading the drive anyway.

Can this be achieved manually by passing some boot parameters? Is this a flaw in Linux kernels?

Regards,

Rony.

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