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Hello, |
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I just bought a via vb7001 mini-itx: |
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http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=490#spec |
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or |
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http://tinyurl.com/364jg3 |
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I did manage to get Gentoo installed on it, however while everything was |
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compiling I read the docs for the bios to get the CRT and Composite to |
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work. |
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A few ebuilds didn't compile, always the same ones, looking for i486 |
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glibc. Thinking (still not entirely sure, but it seems logical to me) |
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that I used the x86 stage3 rather than the 686 stage3 I decided to do a |
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clean install. So I rebooted it, changed the bios to get CRT and |
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Composite to work (and they do), and to reinstall and it died immediately |
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after loading the kernel from the 2007.0 minimal cd. Tried gentoo-nofb, |
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nada, tried gentoo-nofb noapic, nada. |
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So, I decided that I just screwed something up in the BIOS so did the |
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jumper thing as described in the docs to reset the bios to factory |
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defaults. It booted CRT only. Then I carefully set only the settings |
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that I thought were necessary to get composite and CRT to work. It booted |
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and I got this: |
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http://www.hellburner.com/kernel_oops_VB7001/ while fscking the partition. |
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I thought, ok, so I killed the install, wrong stage3, live and learn, |
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reboot, reinstall. So I rebooted but now whenever I try to mkfs.ext3 it |
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locks up and displays garbage on the screen like a busted atari. So, I |
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tried the pin trick. Same result. mkfs starts up, formats the first 1/3 |
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or so of the partition (60gig) and belches out atari. |
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I've had Gentoo running on my PII and my athlon64 3000+ just fine for |
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quite some time and have reinstalled them several times when the cruft |
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gets out of control. |
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I let it sit for a few hours and then decided to run memtest86. Memtest86 |
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ran for slightly more than a second then I got atari. I don't have |
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anything else that accepts that type of ram so I have no way to isolate |
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it. |
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Any ideas? |
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