AMD Computers Boot with Interprid and Hardy

[Eberhard Roloff]

Mark Halegua wrote:
> On Monday 02 March 2009 06:25:02 am Hein van Rensburg wrote:
>> I have seen a few mails saying AMD computers cannot boot interprid and
>> hardy. This problem is seen with AMD and Nvidia chipsets and 32 and 64 bit
>> chipsets and software.
>>

> 
> I have an AMD Turion X2 64bit system and an AMD 32 Athlon single core (ready 
> for upgrade when I find the money) and both have hardy installed.  I did have 
> a problem installing hardy on the Athlon system, and installed an earlier 
> version of Kubuntu and then systematically upgraded.  The Turion X2 64bit 
> system installed hardy no problem.
> 
> Mark
>
As Hein said implicitly, this problem has nothing to do with AMD CPUs.

It is just that the chipsets which cause trouble, happen to have 
motherboards with sockets for AMD CPUs. ;-)

So having an AMD in no way implies trouble. Just when your chipset is 
new and from Nvidia you could possibly....

Eberhard