lunar and 64 bit processors

[Steven Michalske]

Drove to Dayton!!!!

Where are you located?

Im in Cincinnati

hardkrash


On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:14 pm, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Ok, couldn't wait and drove to Dayton and got the stuff. The only change
> from the list above was they had no 3200+, so I went with the 3500+.
>
> So fired the thing up with the 1.5.0pre2 and went through several false
> starts. The most irritating was the screen display. When I was at the menus
> to choose something it displayed fine. But when choosing to create the
> partitions and picking any of the 3 choices (cfdisk, etc) the lower 3rd of
> the display would not show up. The samething happened when it got to the
> part about creating the file systems on the partitions. This was just using
> the default 80x25 that I have used countless times before. So after several
> WTF's and kicking a few brain cells. I tried vga=791 when booting the
> kernel and cfdisk would display normally and I could see the commands at
> the bottom of the screen to write, quit ,etc.
>
> Now the question is what programs won't compile when I choose "Athlon" for
> optimization?
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