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I posted this to the amd64 list, but thought it might be more |
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appropriate here (at least question 1): |
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I recently tried using the 2005.1 installer on an Athlon 3200 Venice |
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running on a GIGABYTE GA-K8N51PVMT-9, which has an Nvidia 430 chipset (I |
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believe it is referred to as either C51 or MCP51 in the kernel). |
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I ran into two problems. |
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1) The boot process hangs on loading the sata_nv module. Using noload= |
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allows the boot process to proceed. But I doubt I would have access to |
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my HD |
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2) Sometime after init starts I get a Kernel Panic. |
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As a result I tried using the x86 2005.1 installer, which has worked fine. |
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My question is twofold: |
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1) How can I help in diagnosing the Kernel Panic? What information would |
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be useful? My understanding is that this is a new chipset and at least |
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kernel version 2.6.14 is needed (I'm running 2.6.15 under x86). What |
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version does the installer use? |
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2) I guess by using x86 I am basically running my machine in 32-bit |
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mode? Is there a way to transition to amd64, or will I have to |
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reinstall? How much am I missing? |
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Thanks for your help, I've been a happy Gentoo user for a few years and |
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this my first excursion into another architecture, |
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Spencer |
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