HP zv5000z AMD64 Development Install fails
Lewt @ Linux Warcry
lewt at warcry.com
Sat Mar 27 12:22:03 UTC 2004
Brian Stretch wrote:
>I was able to get FC1 AMD64 to install on this HP zv5000z Athlon 64
>nForce3 chipset notebook, but it locked up on reboot with the capslock
>light blinking, possibly didn't read the GeForce 440 Go vidcard right?
>The lockup was right about the time it ought to switch to X. I did a
>graphical install, no need for textmode, though the screen did go
>out-of-sync for a few seconds at the tail end of the shutdown-to-reboot.
>
>The AMD64 devel tree from today and yesterday didn't get very
>far. I tried a NFS install from a local mirror of the duke mirror. Fedora
>says "no valid devices were found on which to create new file systems"
>after I select manual partitioning with Disk Druid. Then it reboots.
>I tried acpi=off selinux=0 just for laughs, no diff. Anyone have any
>ideas before I bugzilla this?
>
>It can't detect the "mouse" either, which is an ALPS keypad, and I
>didn't see an option to manually select it like I could with FC1.
>
>BTW: I discovered a SERIOUS flaw in the zv5000z. If you try to use
>both SODIMM slots you'll get memory corruption errors. See here:
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>http://amd64notebooks.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=86
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try running acpi=off in your grub..
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