amd64 probs

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 15 April 2006 09:53, Mitch Thompson wrote:
>Jamon Camisso wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> I just bought, and I'm beginning to regret it, an HP Pavilion
>>> dv5320us, which has an amd turion 64 bit cpu in it.
>>>
>>> I've tried every known method to disable the ACPI stuffs and get
>>> the kubuntu-5.10-amd64.iso to boot, but its a universal freeze at
>>> the ACPI System Version yadda yadda point in the dmesg being output
>>> to the screen, and the only recovery seems to be standing on the
>>> power switch for >4 seconds.
>>>
>>> Whats busted, or should I just give up on trying to install an
>>> amd64 version of anything on this $1100 POS?  Presumably the i386
>>> stuff will run as the FC5 dvd runs far enough to pass its self
>>> check & then dies because all existing partitions on this drive are
>>> primary partitions. leaving no room for anything else.
>>
>> I think I briefly met you on irc today, told you about using hoary
>> in server mode then upgrading (all amd64). Why not give dapper a
>> try? I've installed from Flight 3 to flight 6 (each time from iso's)
>> without any problems on my amd64 system. Give it a try -- yeah
>> another download and another cd to burn, but you won't regret it.

I downloaded the amd64 cd for dapper, version 6.06 IIRC, burnt it, it 
checked ok in k3b after the burn.  I put it in the drive and turned it 
on, and it came up with the syslinux thing for about a second, then the 
kubuntu signon screen where I selected the test the disk option and hit 
enter. It cleared the screen and went on to start drawing dots on the 
screen as a progress bar.

It eventually left a single dot at the upper left corner, then
.
kernel direct mapping table upto ffff81010000000 @ 8000-b000
Booting the kernel.

Where its been sitting for 20 minutes.

So it appears this thing is going to have to run in i386 mode if its to 
run linux at all.  An FC5 i386 dvd ran far enough to blow up when disk 
Druid didn't have any disk to play in.

I just power cycled it and now its running memtest from the cd. Its 
reporting its an AMD 8000 chipset, and some pretty impressive memory 
bandwidth figures, like the L1 cache at almost 15GB/Second and main 
memory at 1252MB/s.  An odd speed though, 163mhz/DDR326.

Does anyone have any clues that might serve to enable this POS to run a 
64 bit kernel?

-- 
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