x86-64 and FC1

[Gareth Bult]

Hi,

I've not seen the K8V?, but it sounds like an SK8N, which I've pretty
much spent the entire
week on, retrying to get 64 bit Fedora working. (I now have a method)

a.    Install an IDE drive
b.    Flash the motherboard to at least rev 4
c.    Install the 64 bit distro (seems to work)
        (burn boot.iso to a CD and install from that via NFS or FTP)
d.    Compile up 2.6-test11 and install
e.    Reboot S - and you'll have SATA
f.    tar the root partition to the SATA and remove the IDE
g.    You're away....

Don't even dream about X compilers and doing it from scratch ... unless
you've
done it before... I've just been there and it's painful. Managed to get
a working compiler
and tools, but when the kernel didn't want to compile I gave up....

HTH
Gareth.

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 17:47, Pete wrote:

> On Friday 12 December 2003 11:22 am, Mark Lane wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 10:05, Pete wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried to get this running on an Asus K8V? I downloaded the
> > > x86-64 tree from duke (thanks to those who did this, the effort is much
> > > appreciated), which was easy enough, but unfortunately, I have two SATA
> > > drives in ATA mode (no need for raid on my desktop), which the default
> > > kernel doesn't see. I really think I have two options here, one is to
> > > wait for a kernel to be created that has the Promise driver and is
> > > included as an update, or to hack it a bit.
> >
> > Well I wouldn't use the Promise (Promise Controllers suck). The VIA SATA
> > that is in the chipset is much better. Though you probably won't be able
> > to installed to it. Best bet is to install on a IDE drive and then
> > compile a 2.6 Kernel. It seems to have better support for the via
> > chipset though the drivers now have been backported to 2.4.23.
> 
> Promise chip lives on the MB, so I can't avoid it. I've been using the 
> controller pretty steadily for about a month (combo 32bit Win and 64bit 
> Mandrake) without issue though despite how much everyone seems to hate 
> Promise. I'd like to switch to fedora as I'm not so infatuated with the 
> current x86-64 Mandrake (first time using drake), and I really like my FC on 
> my laptop. What I really want is a 64 bit Slack distro, but alas, that's not 
> gonna happen tomorrow, so I'll try this route. I've got time to play, and new 
> hardware to play with, so I'm gonna play.
> 
> 
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Gareth Bult <Gareth at Bult.co.uk>
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