lunar and 64 bit processors

[Dennis Veatch]

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:59 pm, Steven Michalske wrote:
> Drove to Dayton!!!!
>
> Where are you located?
>
> Im in Cincinnati
>
> hardkrash
>

Sidney, North of Dayton.

> On Tuesda
> > y 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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