FC1 AMD64 Preview installer crash

[Chris Kloiber]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 04:31, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to install the AMD64 preview of FC1 on a dual Opteron system
> > (dual 240s, HDAMA motherboard, 8GB RAM).  Anaconda crashes (with a
> > kernel BUG) just as it's starting the text mode installer.  If I boot
> > with mem=2048M, the installer works just fine,
> 
> Here's my crash (there are two in this file; the second one was adding
> mem=512M which didn't help):
> 
> 	http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/fedora64-crash.txt
> 
> Tyan Thunder K8S (S2880GNR)
> One Opteron240 CPU
> One 512MB DIMM
> 
> (FC1 32-bit running fine on this machine.)

There is something funky with that motherboard. It's known not to work
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for AMD64. Ask Tyan what they are doing
differently than other vendors of dual processor AMD64 systems that do
work.

Which are curently known to work (and are certified on RHEL 3):

IBM e325 Opteron

Which have I heard do work (word of mouth):

AMD Melody
AMD Solo
AMD Quartet
AMD Serenade
Newisys 2100
AMD Rhapsody (also BoxxTech M4 Series)

What is known not to work (or have problems):

Asus SK8N
Tyan Thunder S2880

The list is not complete, subject to change, I have no idea which are
dual processor, and really was meant for RHEL3, so your mileage my vary.

I have also heard you might get the Tyan booting if you install only
4Gig (or less) of ram. Which seems kind of silly as you bought the AMD64
to use *LOTS* of ram, but if you get it installed, you can try the
errata kernel out. Let me know if it works.

-- 
Chris Kloiber
Red Hat, Inc.