[PLUG] AMD Phenom II X6 1000T / motherbaord problems

[Jason Barnett]

I have successfully run 32 bit versions of Ubuntu on a Phenom II X4 (I no
longer have this machine so I cannot test on my end) I'll do a bit of
research with this new info and let you know what I find...

Jason

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <wevl at pacifier.com>wrote:

> Jason:
> Thanks for responding.
>
> Jason Barnett wrote:
> > We are happy to help, but need more information...
> >
> > How far in the boot process are you getting?  Is it just skipping the CD
> and
> > going straight to the HDD or is it coming up to the boot menu for the CD?
> >
> Depends. If I attempt to boot from a known good hard disk, the boot
> loader indicates that it's Loading Linux, but when it attempts to boot
> the kernel, screens full of stuff like:
> [0.394166]    [<c19da8f3>]    panic+0x5c/0x14d
> [0.394207]    [<c104682c>]    do_exit+0x72c/0x730
> [0.394247]    [<c19daa01>]    ? printk+0x1d/0x1f
> ......
>
> If I attempt to install from CDROM to a hard disk, the installer message
> comes up, Welcome to Slackware bla bla, gives me options to pass extra
> parameters to the kernel and to select a kernel such as hugesmp.s
> No matter which kernel I select, the loader will load the kernel, load
> initrd but as soon it attempts to boot the kernel, a few screenfulls of
> stuff scroll by ending with:
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
>
> > Any error codes/messages? Is this only with 32bit distros or have you
> only
> > tried 32bit versions?
> >
> No, as I indicated below, OpenSuse 11.3 64 bit will live CD will will
> run and seems to run just fine. OpenSuse 11.3 32 bit will not
> successfully boot the kernel.
>
> Are you successfully running a 32 bit Linux on a Phenom II X6?
>
> Wayne
>
> > Jason
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <
> wevl at pacifier.com>wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I can't get 32 bit Linux to boot a AMD Phenom II X6 1000T on a MSI
> >> 890GXM-G65. I have tried Ubuntu 10.10, 10.04, OpenSuse 11.3, Slackware
> >> 12.2, 13.37. OpenSuse 11.3 64 bit however, will boot.
> >>
> >> I believe the motherboard is a fairly new revision as it has the AM3+
> >> socket which is supposed to support the X8 bulldozer CPUs that are in
> >> the future. I am wondering if I can drop back to an older chipset such
> >> as the 880 and get 32 bit Linux to boot the X6? Anybody out there
> >> running Phenom II X6 with 32 bit Linux? If so, what motherboard?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Wayne
> >>
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