On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:47:14 +0100 Alexandru Cabuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying for a few days here to boot my brand new Athlon 64 box on > a Sarge Installation CD. But since sarge is not yet ported to AMD 64 > (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status) > I tried IA 64. AMD64 is just a 64 bit processor in a regular PC body (that can do 32bit emulation, from what I hear). IA 64 is a totally different beast. > The computer refuses to boot off of it. It just hangs instead. At > first I thought it's just a bad motherboard or bios or something, but > now I tried those CDs in my Dell Pentium M laptop, and the laptop > does the same thing. > > So I am starting to wonder if it isn't just an architecture problem. > It won't boot off CDs that were not built for its architecture... > > In this case, will I just have to get used to the fact that I won't be > able to install Sarge AMD 64 on this box until the AMD64 build is > complete? Is there no way around this? And is this normal behavior in > the first place? I've heard of several people using Sarge on an AMD64 on this list. The following howto should help you get it going: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
