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Hallo,


I am a happy user of LFS on a 32 bit system for quite some years now,
and I was looking out for something new ;)
So I assembled a system with Athlon64 (no X2) and SATA disk only in AHCI
mode (CD is PATA), and it nearly worked ;), so now I have a pure64 system.

Building went fine with r2145, apart from 2 issues.
1. I stumbled upon the boot loader not being available and had to dig
quite a bit to continue there. The 64bit-LFS-book simply has commented
out the chapter about grub, but happily continues to talk about grub
install and configure, though it's never built.
I found an old mailing list entry for clfs, telling me that grub does
not build on amd64, which is correct (I tried 0.96, 0.97 and 1.96, and
configure failed at different stages).
LILO does work, although it doesn't look as sleek as grub ;)

2. keyboard mapping files are not installed, and for non-US keyboards
it's quite challenging to get things done (although I was used the US
keyboard on my apple II ages ago). Came around it finally ;)

After I had some unreproducible problems with the canned 2.6.22.1
(ethernet and rtc not recognized) I simply decided to go for the latest
kernel 2.6.24.2, and it works fine. Only thing was to switch on
"experimental drivers" to get access to the k8temp module.

So now I have a lfs 6.3-unofficial build for amd64 booting and working.
Even compiling of openssl and openssh worked, I can login remotely (the
most important for me).
Now I start thinking what to do with this machine ;)

Kudos to the LFS developers!

BTW: can anyone help me out with correct sensors.conf for my mainboard?
It's an MSI Neo V2 (7369 rev 1.1) with 83627dgh chip. This is supported
by lm_sensors and reports data like vbat and cpu fan, but the formulas
and assignment for +5 and +12 (in6/in1) seem not to match reality. +5 is
ok, but it's in1, not in6, and the formula for +12 yields a value
totally out of bounds, and the formula is off by a factor of ~3.5.

Tschau...Thomas
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"Do you wanna be a legend or a passing footprint on the sands of time?"
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