HP Pavilion dv5320us, amd64 'turion' cpu

HP Pavilion dv5320us, amd64 'turion' cpu

[Gene Heskett]

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.

The dapper, 6.06, amd64 cd outputs nothing on screen after "Booting the 
kernel".  I let it sit there for 20 minutes while I caught up on some 
email.

Anybody have any clues that might be helpfull here, other than eating 
the restocking fee and stopping the payment on whats turning into a 
POS, and HP, while not stateing so in the warranty, claims if I put ANY 
3rd party stuff on it, the warranty is null and void.  Needless to say 
I would have appreciated being told that before I dropped my card on 
the counter last tuesday.

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Re: HP Pavilion dv5320us, amd64 'turion' cpu

[Norbert Kiesel]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:57:12 -0400, 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.
> 
> The dapper, 6.06, amd64 cd outputs nothing on screen after "Booting the 
> kernel".  I let it sit there for 20 minutes while I caught up on some 
> email.

Try booting with "noapic", that did the trick for me for a HP dv8000z. 
BTW, the latest dapper kernel does not need the noapicc anymore.

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Re: HP Pavilion dv5320us, amd64 'turion' cpu

[Alistair John Strachan]

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.

Re: HP Pavilion dv5320us, amd64 'turion' cpu

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 15 April 2006 23:46, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>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..

I finally got kubuntu dapper to boot and run quite nicely, but the added 
command line arguments to the boot added about 6 new arguments.  That 
allowed me to run gparted and although it didn't act like it did, it 
did shrink the ntfs partition down to about 27GB, and got rid of the 
other 2 partitions.  I've already made the backup dvd's of course.  XP 
is still happy in the reduced space.  But kubuntu subscribes to the Joe 
Sixpack theory a bit too firmly, not even supplying an accessable 
shell, just the run thingy, so I just burnt the FC5 x86-64 dvd iso, and 
k3b says the checksum is fubar but every disk it said that about has 
passed the disks own mediatests (so far).

So tomorrow, after church, and if the height of the yard doesn't call me 
first, I'm gonna try installing that puppy.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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