On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 04:31, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
I'm trying to install the AMD64 preview of FC1 on a dual Opteron system (dual 240s, HDAMA motherboard, 8GB RAM). Anaconda crashes (with a kernel BUG) just as it's starting the text mode installer. If I boot with mem=2048M, the installer works just fine,
Here's my crash (there are two in this file; the second one was adding mem=512M which didn't help):
http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/fedora64-crash.txt
Tyan Thunder K8S (S2880GNR) One Opteron240 CPU One 512MB DIMM
(FC1 32-bit running fine on this machine.)
There is something funky with that motherboard. It's known not to work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for AMD64. Ask Tyan what they are doing differently than other vendors of dual processor AMD64 systems that do work.
Which are curently known to work (and are certified on RHEL 3):
IBM e325 Opteron
Which have I heard do work (word of mouth):
AMD Melody AMD Solo AMD Quartet AMD Serenade Newisys 2100 AMD Rhapsody (also BoxxTech M4 Series)
What is known not to work (or have problems):
Asus SK8N Tyan Thunder S2880
The list is not complete, subject to change, I have no idea which are dual processor, and really was meant for RHEL3, so your mileage my vary.
I have also heard you might get the Tyan booting if you install only 4Gig (or less) of ram. Which seems kind of silly as you bought the AMD64 to use *LOTS* of ram, but if you get it installed, you can try the errata kernel out. Let me know if it works.