Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Bill Vance]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, David Fletcher wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 21:19 -0700, Bill Vance wrote:
>> Well, 14.04 seems to like my AMD Sempron 2000+
>> even less, as it won't even let it boot, whether
>> it's a download upgrade or a install disk.
>>
>> I think we need to get everyone together and
>> shake our collective fingers at the developers,
>> while chanting, "Shame on you!! Shame on you!!",
>> over and over again.....:-)
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
> If it's of any help, I'm running Mint 64 with Mate, which is based on
> 14.04, on both my Atom net book and an old AMD X2 machine I built maybe,
> I've no idea for sure, 6 or 7 years ago. It's perfect on both machines.
>
> I don't leave them switched on when not in use, but they both always
> boot up and shut down properly, unlike Ubuntu 12.04 before I gave up on
> it.
>
> My suspicion is that it's more to do with the desktops than the
> underlying OS.
>
> Dave

My bad!  It's not a Sempron(tm) 2000+, but
a 2800+.

Naaahhh, nothing to do with the desktop,
it's barely getting past telling me what
I've got in the way of scsi drives, etc.
It says something about cryptographic
block devices, (far as I know, I ain't
got any), and then goes blank screen,
and dies.

Bill