SiI3512 support?

[twgray]

Is there a howto for customizing the installation cd? I would like to add the patch for siI3512 SATA, so that I can install on my SATA drive.

[ewdi]

i did it by creating a boot floppy with patched kernel boot.

[twgray]

Thanks. I had hoped to respin the install cd since I don't have a floppy drive.

[RitzUK]

That's exactly what i'm after, I have an AMD64 with a SATA hard disk using those drivers. You wouldn't have a shuttle, would you?

[twgray]

Yes, I have a shuttle with a 200GB Maxtor SATA hard drive. I currently have Gentoo64 on it, but would like to try Fedora. No luck so far. I guess I could install on an ide drive, recompile kernel with the siI3512 patches, and then copy it to the SATA...but by the time I've done all that, I may as well stay with Gentoo.

[ewdi]

core 2 will have the support for it, the only with core one is creating a boot disk iumage with patched boot kernel

[Bana]

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...highlight=3512 There are instructions at the link in this thread.

[cray]

Originally posted by Bana
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...highlight=3512 There are instructions at the link in this thread.

Hi, I have looked thru Comment #3 from dijuremo about modifying the initrd.img on the iso on the thread on Bugzilla Bug 121834. However, I cannot seem to understand how I can replace the old image by a new one we create on point 4, specifically:

cp -rp /tmp/newinitrd.img /tmp/FC2T3/isolinux/initrd.img

I expect mounting the original iso as a loop back not to make it writable.

Care to shed a light here?? Thanks!

[twgray]

I found it to be read-only after mounting iso. Ultimately had to copy all of cd into a temp directory, make modifications, then re-create iso image with mkisofs. Mount-iso or kiso are 'easier' to use than mkisofs, if you aren't familiar with it.

[cray]

Originally posted by twgray
I found it to be read-only after mounting iso. Ultimately had to copy all of cd into a temp directory, make modifications, then re-create iso image with mkisofs. Mount-iso or kiso are 'easier' to use than mkisofs, if you aren't familiar with it.

yah..looking at it, you'll probably have to copy out the contents of /tmp/FC3T2 to another directory, apply the new initrd.img and then mkisofs the whole directory back to iso again.......

gee....no time to try out anything yet....hope to have some time next week to clear this thing up.....

[snyberg]

Is there a way to make this modified boot floppy without having access to a linux system? I am new to linux and I have a SATA HDD with the SiI3512 controller and I need the patch so the Fedora (1.92) installation recognizes it.

[triplehead]

Originally posted by twgray
Yes, I have a shuttle with a 200GB Maxtor SATA hard drive. I currently have Gentoo64 on it, but would like to try Fedora. No luck so far. I guess I could install on an ide drive, recompile kernel with the siI3512 patches, and then copy it to the SATA...but by the time I've done all that, I may as well stay with Gentoo.

I tried to install core 2 to shuttle 85G4 and install halted when installing sata and usb drivers.
I found out that if i turned off usb support in BIOS install worked ok (i have usb mouse so had to do install on text mode). After 1 boot i turned usb support on and kudzu configured everything OK .

[ewdi]

try disable ports you dont use, i disable Serial Ports, Pararel Port on my shuttle and it runs fine even all USB is on

[triplehead]

Originally posted by tux
try disable ports you dont use, i disable Serial Ports, Pararel Port on my shuttle and it runs fine even all USB is on

all unused ports are disabled. i have even sata and raid support disabled and still fedora "see" them ???

[ewdi]

that's odd, it shouldnt get through into bios read.