[hpsdr] [dttsp-linux] intel 330 x86-64

[Edson Pereira]

Bob,

Absolutely terrific! Your info is precious.

It seems we are converging on a hardware platform. What do you think 
about using a common distribution? Does the group think we should use 
Ubuntu 8.04.1 or 8.10?

Regards,

-- Edson


Bob McGwier wrote:
>
> Just got back from Puerto Rico, and naturally, the first thing I am 
> doing after reading email, hugging my kids, before I read mail (all 
> bills anyway), is to try and install x86_64 on my Atom330 D945GCLF2 
> motherboard. Of course, it gave me a fit. First, the latest kernels 
> and the BIOS have an incompatibility (but of COURSE). So you must do a 
> bios update to the Dec. 21, 2008 BIOS. The instructions make it seem 
> trivial. Put the iso on a bootable device (such as CD ROM) and let it 
> do the upgrade.
>
> So the CD ROM boots, and it asks you if you want to flash, you say 
> yes, and it does some stuff and then boots. You think you are done so 
> you unload the CD-ROM and you get a CRC checksum message. You say 
> “Self, you have seen this before, the BIOS is updated and the battery 
> backed configuration is not checksummed” and it boots.
>
> You try to start the x86_64 installation disks, and BOOM, kernel panic.
>
> You scratch your head (as I am sure hundreds have done before you), 
> you google, and you see almost no help whatsoever beyond “update the 
> firmware”. You confirm that the firmware has NOT been updated and you 
> go hmmmm. Your burn another copy of the CD-Rom, you do it again, same 
> failure.
>
> You boot the firmware update CD-ROM a TH IRD bloody time BUT THIS 
> TIME, you let the computer reboot WITHOUT REMOVING THE CD-ROM and on 
> the SECOND PASS, it flashes the ROM. Not a single word about this 
> being a two pass or two step process ANYWHERE that you can find, but 
> this time it finishes. You confirm that after removing the CD-ROM and 
> going into setup that this time, you have the correct version of the 
> BIOS (it says Intel 64 bit processor compatible and does NOT say EM64T 
> capable). You install your Ubuntu x86_64 live CD and this time it 
> boots without a bloody kernel panic.
>
> I will report more later after I hope I forestall your making the same 
> stupid blunders I did.
>
> Bob
>
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