Hoary Install on AMD64 with SATA Drive

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:48:12PM -0500, Byron Poland wrote:
> I know this was sort of mentioned in the Array 3 notes, but I wanted
> to report this to the list.  I just put together an AMD64 box based on
> the Abit AV8 motherboard.  The Hoary Live Cd released the other day
> works great.  And yesterday's daily installed.  However for some
> reason grub doesn't seem to get installed, or isn't functionable.  As
> the Bios tries to and off to the bootloader and it just hangs there. 
> (Blinking cursor after the "Verifying DMA Code........"  There  is a
> post indicating the same problem in the forums, saying Suse 9.2 worked
> fine.

It appears to be a kernel bug, which as far as I can tell has not yet
been fully diagnosed or fixed:

  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.3/1083.html

I'm still trying to track it down in the absence of any input from
linux-kernel.

> A fix or a work around would be much appreciated.

Starting the installer with 'linux noexec=off' may be a workaround,
although of course it removes all the protections that the NX bit gives
you.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]