> Just built a new AMD 64 bit machine. No CDROM yet, so can't try the > usual install ISO. My stupid question, will gNS exist happily on AMD > 64?
I just built the same thing recently--perhaps your system might have similar issues. Although I too have no CD-ROM drive (and frankly cannot justify ever paying for that which I have little use), I installed from the ISO anyway via qemu. I just hooked up the new drive in the old system, made an initial partition, and using software RAID(*), mounted the same partition under a qemu booting from the ISO. I then installed gNS and rebooted with the new partition *under qemu* since my new equipment will hang on the kind of ancient kernel from the ISO. Then I installed any missing compiling tools that I would need anyway, compiled and configured a recent kernel such as 2.6.24 for my new AMD system, and installed it onto the partition. After shutting down qemu and then the old system, I installed the drive into the old system and boot. It hung a few times before I realized that I needed a special boot option. Here is the interesting part from my /boot/grub/menu.lst file: ## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro clocksource=acpi_pm After putting in that clocksource=acpi_pm option, I ran update-grub, which fixed the menu entries. Of course, in order to get to that point of not hanging, I first needed to do a manual, temporary, edit of the boot line when grub started. After that, I really had no special problems, just some tweaking and what not. It may sound like a bit much, but it was a nice exercise in exploiting the unparalleled flexibility of free software. Just ask if there are any problems, and have fun. Other issues: 1. The 2.6.24 kernel of course has non-free code, so I plan on using one of the "blagged" kernels until a proper gNS solution is here. 2. My intel-hda sound was not recognized by the ancient ALSA software in gNS, so I fixed it by installing the latest ALSA. However, I think I am OK in this case, since it seems that the driver does not involve non-free code. 3. Of course, 690G video under gNS is bad, so I have resorted to the brain-dead vesa driver and needing to manually turn off the CRT since the DPMS does not work. Yet another reason to celebrate a new upcoming version of gNS. (*)RAID/qemu trick: See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qemu#Using_any_real_partition_as_the_single_primary_partition_of_a_hard_disk_image _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
