Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: HP Pavilion dv5320us, amd64 'turion' cpu | Date | Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:46:18 +0100 |
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On Saturday 15 April 2006 19:57, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I've been dl'ing and burning cd's and dvd's at a furious rate for > several days now, looking for a 64 bit distribution that will actually > boot on this thing, apparently in vain. i386 stuff works fine. > The kubuntu 'breezy' 5.10 locks up at the ACPI line regardless of what > kernel options you pass trying to disable it.
If you really can't get it working, building an AMD64 cross compiler and an AMD64 kernel on a 32bit only distribution is surprisingly easy. It would allow you to debug any 64bit specific problems whilst allowing you to fall back on the comforts of a working kernel..
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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