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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>You try to start the x86_64 installation disks, and BOOM,
kernel panic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I will report more later after I hope I forestall your
making the same stupid blunders I did.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Bob<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ARRL SDR Working Group Chair<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>"And yes I said, yes I will
Yes", Molly Bloom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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