[mythtv-users] RE: VIA chipset Grub bootloader

[Mike Daugird]

Hello, I am posting this as a follow up.
I set up my front end and backend on the same machine using a KT400 chipset.
I can watch a recorded program while my box is recording a different channel(pvr-350)
it works just fine so far. It has only been up now for 12 hrs as I write this but it completed
the mythfilldatabase command at 2:00am this morning.
I did pass the following on the gurb config file.(from dmesg)
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 acpi=off noapic nolapic pci=noacpi

after this has been up for a while I will see if it runs without turning off everything.
FWIW

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Daugird 
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 1:48 PM
To: 'mythtv-users at mythtv.org'
Subject: VIA chipset Grub bootloader


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