Breezy AMD64 install not working.

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 03:18 -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> It will not work at all unless I tell it not to use a framebuffer.
> Then, it gets to where it's installing the kernel, and right about the
> time that finishes, the screen goes whacko, with flashing characters and
> stuff.  The computer is deadlocked, as far as I can tell.  There is no
> keyboard and I must reset.

I should provide more information about the hardware.  It is an Epox
EP-9NPAJ, which is a socket 939 that has the nVidia nForce4 chipset.
I'm using an SATA hard drive, which seems to work fine, since the file
system is populated with base system packages.  This computer works fine
with the Hoary AMD64 Live CD, but the Breezy one fails to boot.

Both the Ubuntu and Debian AMD64 installers hang when it is installing
the kernel image.  On booting with a rescue system, I see that the
kernel image is never written to disk.  On the debugging console, before
it freezes, I see the warning message about that I'm installing a kernel
that is the same version as the one that is running, to push enter.

At that point, it is locked up and I must reset the computer.

-- 
Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>