From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: HP Pavilion dv5320us, amd64 'turion' cpu
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:46:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604160446.18861.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604151457.12508.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
On Saturday 15 April 2006 19:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I've been dl'ing and burning cd's and dvd's at a furious rate for
> several days now, looking for a 64 bit distribution that will actually
> boot on this thing, apparently in vain. i386 stuff works fine.
> The kubuntu 'breezy' 5.10 locks up at the ACPI line regardless of what
> kernel options you pass trying to disable it.
If you really can't get it working, building an AMD64 cross compiler and an
AMD64 kernel on a 32bit only distribution is surprisingly easy. It would
allow you to debug any 64bit specific problems whilst allowing you to fall
back on the comforts of a working kernel..
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-16 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-15 18:57 Gene Heskett
2006-04-15 19:49 ` Norbert Kiesel
2006-04-16 3:46 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2006-04-16 5:13 ` Gene Heskett
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