Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 installation problem

[Rob Myers]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:33, Mario J. Borgnia wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 16:01, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 at 3:24pm, Mario J. Borgnia wrote
> > 
> > > I am trying to install Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 on a system with
> > > the following specs:
> > > 
> > > CPU: AMD Opteron 246 (dual)
> > > RAM: 16 GB
> > > Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8W V1.01a
> > > GPU: NVIDIA Quadro FX 500
> > > 
> 
> I tried this both before and after updating the Tyan BIOS with no
> progress.

i also found the 1.01i bios to cause more problems than it solved. 
fortunately there is at least version 1.01k available if you contact
tyan tech support.  i have the same board with dual opteron 248 and 8gb
of ram, a GeForce4 MX 440, broadcom 5701 nic and bios 1.01k.

the boot image from
http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fc1_x86_64/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso at
Mon Jan 26 10:53:46 EST 2004 works on my system if booted with
apic=off.  however, in order to detect the network card[1] mem=1G also
had to be passed to the kernel at boot time.  the network card is
important since i did an http install.

good luck!

rob.

[1] add in broadcom 5701, i dont know if the onboard broadcom 5703 is
working with latest bios and drivers