There are 4 problems:
- The standard kernel hangs at boot. This is because of a mmconfig related problem. To fix this use "pci=nommconf" as kernel boot option which will ignore the mmconfig information but still enable acpi so you still have a SMP machine.
- The CD/DVD chipset is not yet supported. It is a "Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101" which not even 2.6.23.9 seems to want to talk to. To solve this I booted from CD, but then continued to install from a USB stick.
- The standard kernel uses the experimental firewire driver, which gives me an oops. The older firewire driver works perfectly.
- The ethernet card is not recognised. It is a "Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 294c" which works with the 7.6.12-NAPI version e1000 driver.
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does point 2 means that you have no CD/DVD support in Debian at the moment?
Reading the comments at Kenshi Muto i have tried Fedora 8. It seems like Fedora (Linux 2.6.23.8-63) supports the DG33TL perfect (LAN, CD/DVD,...).
Hope i can soon switch back from Fedora to Debian. (I'm a Debian guy and will always be a Debian Guy :) )
How do you continue the install from USB? I have this motherboard as well.
I tried mounting the iso, but apparently there is some bug with the loop device preventing this.
So first of all the CDROM works with a 2.6.23.9 kernel. Then to install with the USB key I just burned the CDROM, booted from that.
When it did not find the CDROM I used the 'manual' method. I took a USB memory stick on which I had dd'ed the cdrom image over. Like "dd if=cdrom.iso of=/dev/sdb5" (the USB stick being sdb). Then I told the installed the CDROM was at /dev/sdc5 (the usb memory stick), it found the iso9660 filesystem and just went ahead with the installation.
Thanks pvaneynd - I am trying to get Gentoo Linux up and running on this mobo, and the "pci=nommconf" gets me my 2 CPUs. I was booting with "acpi=off", which only gave me 1 CPU and really p***ed me off.
If anyone wants a live CD that works you can follow this link, and download an iso:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-609992-highlight-dg33tl.html
I booted off the live CD, which then let me mount a SATA drive on which I had copied a basic Gentoo system. I could then recompile the kernel, and finally boot off disk. BTW, you have to mark a partition with the "bootable flag" or the Intel BIOS won't try to boot off it. My old Gigabyte mobo didn't worry about that, and I was mystified for a while.
I still have to get my CD/DVD, X11, and the sound card working - this mobo is cheap but a pain in the a*** for Linux !
Well i try to understand but my english is'nt good, so please tell me what dou you mean when say 'manuel method', can put some instruccion or the source to find an answer, please put commands, or steeps.
but let me to tell you like i understand(step2): you make a usb bootable, with something like
# gzip -dc boot.img.gz >/dev/sda
after this, you copy a valid debian iso into the usb drive and useit to install,
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