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.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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