I have and am still running several machines with athlons and Mandrake. I have 3 dual processor athlons and 3 single athlons running right now. One of the duals is running beta 4 and soon rc1 hopefully. The problems I have had in the past with athons is the video card.
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:22, Laing A. K. wrote: > > Hi, > > Ever since the betas of Mandrake 8.0, through 8.1, through 8.2, I have > never been able to run a Mandrake distribution kernel on my Athlon > desktop PC. (Sounds outrageous, I know). 7.1 and 7.2 used to work. > > Just so you know I know my way around Linux: I have successfully > installed 8.0 and 8.1 and 8.2, both on a PC with Pentium 200MMX, and a > Celeron Laptop. But my main desktop is a Gateway Athlon select > 900Mhz, 256M Ram, 15G Hard drive. That is the most powerful of my > three machines. That is the only one that has had this problem of not > being able to run the distribution kernel. > > In each case Mandrake installs fine, up till the point of configuring > X, and rebooting. On rebooting, soon after the line that says "Init > version d.dd booting", it hangs, very reliably. It used to do this on > 8.0 and 8.0 with Init version 2.78, and now with Init version 2.83. > > In each case I have solved the problem by booting into redhat (dual > boot), and compiling a kernel for mandrake, and this works fine when I > get the kernel sources from www.kernel.org. > > While investigating this problem I also created a way of cross-booting > so that I could use a Redhat kernel to boot the Mandrake distribution, > or use the Mandrake kernel to boot the Redhat distribution. The > Redhat kernel *can* boot the Mandrake distribution, but the Mandrake > kernel *can't* boot the Redhat distribution either. > > However I would *really* *love* the luxury of not having to do a > kernel compile each time I install mandrake. As you can tell I'm > always installing the latest Mandrake release, even despite this > problem. > > What can I do to figure out what causes this problem? It is obviously > something about the way Mandrake modifies the kernel which they get > from Linus, which does not work well with some quirk of my hardware, > ... > > Any ideas and suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks, > > Ambrose L > >
