Re: FC3 install on SATA

["Matthew E. Lauterbach" <mlauterbach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 00:28 +0530, G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Matthew E. Lauterbach wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone had any luck with installing either i386 or x86_64 to SATA on
> > an AMD64?  I get kernel panics like in bug 139674 on boot.  The patched
> > kernel is not fixing it for me.  This may be specific to my Chaintech
> > VNF3-250 motherboard.  The only other person I know of with this problem
> > also has the same motherboard.  Has anyone done a successful install of
> > either i386 or x86_64 onto SATA with a nForce3 motherboard?
> > 
> > 
> I've installed FC3 on my AMD64 (x86_64). Motherboard is MSI with VIA 8237 
> chipset and nVidia GeForce FX 5200 graphics card. Samsung SATA hard disk. 
> Had only one problem only once. The installation exited with a message 
> "installation terminate abnormally". I tried installing again and it 
> worked fine. It seems to be very stable compared to FC2, atleast on my 
> system.
> 
Good to hear that it is working for some people.  FC3 i386 is working
well on my Dell laptop.  Just some weird bug caused by my motherboard on
the amd64 I guess.

> Regards,
> Vamsee
> 
> 
> -- 
> experience is what you get when you don't get what you really wanted
> 

Matthew E. Lauterbach

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