On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:25:58 +0000, John wrote:


> I looked up the Shuttle sn25p and it has the very same stuff on the
> motherboard - nvidia nforce 4 with mcp. I noticed the bios is by Award
> though - on my Asus A8N-VM CSM it is American Megatrends. The megatrend
> bios refers to a "Winbond" io system. Could it be I have a "winmodem"
> type motherboard?

Winbond refers to Winbond Electronics. It's not a "winmodem" type.

As for the SATA drive, do you know what kernel your installer is using?
You are going to need a kernel with libata support. I'm a little hazy on
the details but this link should get you going.

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html




> Reports are that the bios on this motherboard is borked somehow in respect
> of acpi. It is very linux unfriendly, that's for sure. It's an Asus and
> I didn't do any research since my last two Asus boards have run linux very
> well. I thought this one would be the same.
>
> It runs Windows 2000 very well but linux can't seem to get off the runway.