PCI Bus on Elitegroup K7SOM Not Detected

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 8.0,8.1

Symptom

The PCI bus and the onboard chipset on an Elitegroup K7SOM are not detected and the following boot message is displayed:

System does not support PCI

Solution

Start the installation with the kernel parameter pci=bios. Add this parameter to the boot options.

If the installation is already completed, boot with the kernel parameter pci=bios.

You can use YaST2 to add this parameter to the boot loader configuration later.

Refer to the manual for additional information about YaST2's boot loader configuration.


Keywords: ELITEGROUP, MOTHERBOARD, K7SOM, SIS, MAINBOARD, ONBOARD

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