I have successfully run 32 bit versions of Ubuntu on a Phenom II X4 (I no longer have this machine so I cannot test on my end) I'll do a bit of research with this new info and let you know what I find...
Jason On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <[email protected]>wrote: > Jason: > Thanks for responding. > > Jason Barnett wrote: > > We are happy to help, but need more information... > > > > How far in the boot process are you getting? Is it just skipping the CD > and > > going straight to the HDD or is it coming up to the boot menu for the CD? > > > Depends. If I attempt to boot from a known good hard disk, the boot > loader indicates that it's Loading Linux, but when it attempts to boot > the kernel, screens full of stuff like: > [0.394166] [<c19da8f3>] panic+0x5c/0x14d > [0.394207] [<c104682c>] do_exit+0x72c/0x730 > [0.394247] [<c19daa01>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f > ...... > > If I attempt to install from CDROM to a hard disk, the installer message > comes up, Welcome to Slackware bla bla, gives me options to pass extra > parameters to the kernel and to select a kernel such as hugesmp.s > No matter which kernel I select, the loader will load the kernel, load > initrd but as soon it attempts to boot the kernel, a few screenfulls of > stuff scroll by ending with: > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > > > Any error codes/messages? Is this only with 32bit distros or have you > only > > tried 32bit versions? > > > No, as I indicated below, OpenSuse 11.3 64 bit will live CD will will > run and seems to run just fine. OpenSuse 11.3 32 bit will not > successfully boot the kernel. > > Are you successfully running a 32 bit Linux on a Phenom II X6? > > Wayne > > > Jason > > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > > > >> I can't get 32 bit Linux to boot a AMD Phenom II X6 1000T on a MSI > >> 890GXM-G65. I have tried Ubuntu 10.10, 10.04, OpenSuse 11.3, Slackware > >> 12.2, 13.37. OpenSuse 11.3 64 bit however, will boot. > >> > >> I believe the motherboard is a fairly new revision as it has the AM3+ > >> socket which is supposed to support the X8 bulldozer CPUs that are in > >> the future. I am wondering if I can drop back to an older chipset such > >> as the 880 and get 32 bit Linux to boot the X6? Anybody out there > >> running Phenom II X6 with 32 bit Linux? If so, what motherboard? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Wayne > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
