lunar and 64 bit processors

[Dennis Veatch]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:00 am, Auke Kok wrote:
> Dennis Veatch wrote:
> >Anyone running Lunar of an AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+ with the hypertransport
> > stuff? Thinking about a new machine with the following;
> >
> >AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+ with the hypertransport
> >ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe PCI-E RAID SATA 2xGLAN (Sock-939)
> >DDR400 2GB
> >SATA West Dig. 36.7GB Raptor
> >PCI-Express ASUS N6600GT/TD/128 SLI 128MB
> >
> >Any known gotchas to be aware of? I think the biggest problem will be
> > during the install and the SATA. I don't think Sexyboy has the drivers
> > for it. Will the 1.5.0pre2 test ISO have any problems with an install and
> > SATA?
>
> I've got an ati iiiiiiix7 here and 1.5.0pre2 installs just fine on the
> attached SATA disk! the 2.4.29+ kernels have much better SATA support
> than many people think. They forgot that since 2.4.29 the entire libata
> driver was pretty much backported. In any case you should definately try
> the precompiled/iso kernels on the 1.5.0pre2 iso and let us know how
> your hardware works!
>
> from there on you can always just to a 2.6 kernel once you're
> bootstrapped and network ready.
>
> sofar
>
> _______________________________________________

Cool. 1.5.0pre2 it is then. Hopefully I will get it within a week or two.