ASUS P5B jmicron IDE controller problem

Addz4115 · n00b Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 5

Hey

I have been reading many posts over the last few days with no luck I have an ASUS P5B and it has a JMicron IDE controller. When i boot it comes up with:

d2_racing · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:

Do you use the Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCd ?

Addz4115 · n00b Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 5

No i used the Jmicron gentoo small cd

d2_racing · Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 2:24 am Post subject:

Can you try the Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD ?

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml

Addz4115 · n00b Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 5

gentoo is already installed and working on my pc it just won't boot when i plug in the cdrom drives

bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 590

try kerneloption "all-generic-ide"

Addz4115 · n00b Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 5

were do i do that

Addz4115 · n00b Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 5

OK i added "all-generic-ide" but that didn't work

bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 590

worked fine using my motherboard.

what settings do you use in bios?

Fazi · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 15

I have the same motherboard and the same problem. I use two hard disks, SATA and ATA. It happens when I boot my Linux from ATA drive. I set in BIOS SATA drive as 1st disk.
What's going on with this JMicrons?

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject:

another useless 'me too post here' - my JMicron onboard adaptor fails like that.
However I found that having ACPI enabled allows it to boot just fine.
Unfortunately ACPI support causes the machine to hang just after reading in the DSDT so I can't leave it on :-(

Hmm.
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