Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 installation problem

Mario J. Borgnia mborgnia at nih.gov
Fri Jan 23 15:35:44 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 16:00, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:24:22PM -0500, Mario J. Borgnia wrote:
> > I am trying to install Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 on a system with
> > the following specs:
> > 
> > CPU: AMD Opteron 246 (dual)
> > RAM: 16 GB
> > Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8W V1.01a
> > GPU: NVIDIA Quadro FX 500
> > 
> There are a few known issues with this motherboard, luckily most are fixed.
> For details see: http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg04476.html The
> first thing I would recommend is a bios update to 1.01i.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin

Thanks Justin,

I tried the new BIOS, it does not help. Actually, the computer fails to
find the partitions where I had installed other distros. I had to revert
to the previous version before I could make the machine usable again.

Mario
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