i'm trying to install FC4-64 on this MB, but as soon as the initrd.img is going to be loaded into ram, the pc reboots.

does anyone have an idea why this happen?

Specs are:
MB Asus k8s+mx
AMD Sempron 64 2500
1gb ram dual channel
2 sata 80gb desktar hitachi

TIA.

I am also having the same problem beside this if I try to configure the LAN card
SIS 191/190 MAC + RealTeck 8201 CL 10/100 LAN PNY on the same
ASU K8SMX Mother board
without a SATA hard disk it is not detecting
and on SATA hard disk it is not intsalling any Linux Destro

i just switch the motherboard (downgrade the machine) to a sempron 2400 with a A7V400-MX SE.

Not happy with it, but, well, was a (crappy) solution.

Thanks.

PS: I Still want to know if someone has a solution for the K8S mother issue.

Same thing happens to me, with both x86_64 and 32

No clue...

any help would be awesome.

At least I hope this would be fixed in the next version of the distro.

I have been having the same problem where the PC is rebooting at the exact same spot.

I have a K8S-MX mobo, 512 meg ram, on board video/sound/network. No floppy, only CD-RW, and 80GB SATA drive.
I am setting up 2 machines the exact same, Win 2000 installed perfectly on it, so now I want to wipe the hard drive and install FC4, but it rebooting it preventing me.
I know I will have issues using the (only) 80GB SATA drive, but I will deal with that when I get to it, right now, I want to boot the computer, and at least get in to the installer.

Knoppix works find on the machine, it boots, and is operational.

has anyone thought of what a solution could be?
Could my install disks be corrupted? I installed FC4 on another machine 6 months ago with the same disk set. Is it a distro issue?
Looking on the net it looks like other people have installed this package on this motherboard, but some other people have been having the same problem as us.

Steve

AFAIK it seems to be a distro issue, since if you try to install it with a IDE HD it does the same damn thing.

In my case, I was using a Sempron 64 NOT a Athlon 64, and I think this could be important to have in mind if you try to find a solution. Somehow I think this cpu is not fully compatible. AMD builds very good processors, but I never liked the Sempron series, don't know why, just hate them.

Cheers.

The K8S-MX motherboard will not work with any Linux distribution. The problem lies in the SiS965 chipset which is the southbridge for this motherboard. Until someone in the Linux community is willing to update linux it will never happen. ASUS answer is that the motherboard is not supported with Linux, I learned this lesson to late. However, it is a great motherboard and Windows XP supports it fine. Save your time and efforts, just give up.

It is really bad that one must purchase old junk technology to get a system that is Linux compatible.

It really hurts to read that.



I hope someone fix this, so we all can use this motherboard.

Good Luck.

What is really too bad is people using SiS chipsets. They are by far the lowest of the low, and no motherboard with a SiS is a good motherboard. You need to be looking essentially at only Intel chipsets for intel processors PERIOD. And for AMDs, you really should be getting nForce. It would also be best for secondaries to avoid via raid controllers and some other via parts, for sakes of speed and performance, it is best for you to stick with good parts. New parts, does not mean good parts. Good parts mean good parts. And you can get new good parts. If you want good spport and good parts, don't get SiS, from any manufacturer, it doesn't have the power or stability of other chipset makers.

ASUS used to be one of the best MB makers on the planet, but as any experienced tech will tell you, for the past few years, that just isn't so. Gigabyte and MSI really seem to constantly come out on top since the latter parts of the Athlon XP/P4 era.

I agree with you on the chipset issue. I never liked SiS, but this time, I haven't other choice, since, as you could imagine, cost was the parameter to follow.
Of corse I would choose nVidia as chipset for "My" computer/server, since I'm happy with amd cpus. But this time, that wasn't a decision that I have taken.
Anyway, this would be good to have support on almost everything (I'm aware that this is some utopic thought, but well, nothing is lost by dreaming).

Maybe ASUS is following the way Soyo did a few years, since, as you know, Soyo was one of the best mb manufacter, but now, I think it's simple average.

Maybe, it's time for me to give MSI and Gigabyte a try.

I have one with the sempron 2800 and have the same problem - reboots loading the distro cd of FC3,FC4 - however it runs the FC3 that was already on the hdd [ I 'upgraded' the mb ]. It seems pretty reliable [ I'm using its video adapter and a PCI NIC ]; it bogs terribly if you burn a CD. I don't know if that is related.

If you have a junker around, try moving your drive to it, installing FCx, then move the drive to your shiny new machine....

Hi. I faced the same problem. at boot prompt type ide=nodma.worked for me. I have a dual boot winxp and fc4.
Need help for configuring lan with adsl on this mb.:

For setting up LAN card you may refer my page at
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~mohitz/tech/k8smx.php

Hi people,
Yes this really is an appalling board but i'm stuck with it for the time being, I have an ide HDD and have been trying to get FC4-64bit to go on it [FC3-32bit was OK] using "ide=nodma" and "noprobe" gets me to the point where it seems to have installed but on the first reboot it blobs out claiming to be unable to find/mount the partitions. using some other software shows that /boot [100mb] is type 83h linux but that the extended partition on the drive is type 8eh [unknown], using the utility to change the partition type has no effect [things are never that easy!]. I had a go putting FC5-b2 on but this boots from DVD, looks to be OK but then fails to write the install image to the drive claiming to have failed to mount the drive or some such thing. Anyone got any ideas? I think I'll give it one last go when FC5 comes out and if it won't have it i'll try a better board.Trouble is,thats the easy way out and there's not much fun in that!
Joe