Can't find eth0 at allForum: USB booting Topic: Can't find eth0 at all started by: sebrock Posted by sebrock on April 21 2006,16:10
Hi,I'm looking to have a copy of DSL on my Sandisk 1gb micro. Although first I needed to test it using the LiveCD. Everything seemes to work except the NIC. I have a nForce4 board with inteegrated NIC. I read somewhere that they excluded the forcedeth-drivers? Why? And what can I do to get this to work? I also tried with the nvidia drivers, but this ofcause doesnt work with the livecd. Please help. If this is fixable then is it possible to get the USB-drive to be read and write, or is it just read? This is pretty important as there are no nforce drivers included. Lat but not least: my BIOS (MB: MSI K8N Platinum SLi) shows a couple of different USB alternatives, but no USB-HDD. I find it strange because the mobo is just a year old. I do find USB-FDD, what is that? Please help me with these issues, otherwise there is no use continuing this. Can't understand why they removed nforce drivers, the point is is should be a portable OS right...?? Posted by ~thc on April 21 2006,19:55
you may try dsl version 2.1b (kernel 2.4.31)."usb-fdd" means "floppy disk drive" emulation mode Posted by sebrock on April 21 2006,21:22
Ok, strange, cos I have a USB-FLOPPY as well? does that mean I cant use USB-HDD with my one year old mobo? What is the difference from HDD to Floppy anyway? So why did they erase the drivers? anyone knows? Posted by ~thc on April 22 2006,18:10
"usb-fdd" boot emulation mode has nothing to do with any kind of floppy disk drives.the very first sector of a harddisk contains a master boot record and the partition table. those decide which partition is the bootable one and "jump" to this partition. the very first sector of a "floppy" contains the boot sector. the data begins immediatly after that boot sector. so "usb-hdd" and "usb-fdd" are bios options telling the bios boot code how to handle the boot process on an usb stick. |