[mythtv-users] VIA chipset Grub bootloader
Folashade Adeyosoye
shardayyy at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 21:23:37 UTC 2005
What's long time go, what about a computer that was bought in 2000 (700mhz)
This is the results I got from running a bios check. Would this fall under
one of those that won't work?
BIOS Date: 07/04/00
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PGN
BIOS ID: 07/04/2000-8363-686A-6A6LMB09C-00
OEM Sign-On: VKB0705B
Chipset: VIA 82C305 rev 2
Superio: VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 7h
CPU Type: AMD K5
CPU Speed: 700 Mhz
CPU Max: 1000 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 256K
Memory Installed: 256 MB
Memory Maximum: 512 MB
-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 4:20 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] VIA chipset Grub bootloader
I run 5 various Via-based machines here. I have no problem with
either MythTV or real time audio (Jack/Ardour, etc.) on any of these
machines.
There were some Via problems ages ago, but I think those are long taken care
of.
My 2 cents,
Mark
On 10/10/05, Mike Daugird <MDaugird at erdman.com> wrote:
> I am in the process of moving from a P3 933 to an athlon-xp 2500 with 1
gig of memory and 661G of Drive space in LVM2.
>
> The main motivator was that the old bios did't handle the bigger drives
well,(long story)
>
> I just read something about VIA chipsets=bad and that I need to pass grub
conf options.
> can someone help with this?
> I haven't finished the setup yet, I still have to figure out if I can copy
over mysql databas tables but I think That Tuesday night I will try to move
over the PVR-350 card.
> thanks
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