Fedora on an AMD Athlon 64 (3200+) machine

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Sun Nov 19 09:31:46 UTC 2006


On Nov 18 Timothy Murphy did spake thusly:

> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> I have a Targa desktop with this processor,
>> and I have always had problems installing Fedora x86_64 on it.
> ...
>> I'd be interested to know if anyone has had similar problems
>> with this CPU, or alternatively had no problems installing Fedora.
>
> I asked this some time ago, and as far as I can see
> only got replies from people running the i386 version of Fedora-6.
>
> Yesterday I installed the i386 version on my Athlon 64 machine,
> and it seems to run without any problems at all -
> I compiled kernel-2.6.18.2 in a few seconds,
> whereas trying to compile the same kernel under x86_64
> caused several crashes during the compilation,
> and when it was complete the kernel only ran for a few minutes
> before crashing.
> (I had the experience trying to re-compile the latest Fedora kernel.)
>
> I suppose it is possible that these problems arise from some fault
> in my computer, but it seems much more likely to be a software problem.
>
> So I'll ask again if anyone is happily running the x86_64 version of FC-6
> on an Athlon 64 machine?

Running it on a dual opteron with no issue...

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