Linked by Robert Minvielle on Tue 16th Dec 2003 20:00 UTC
This is the second installment of the "Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?" article. Basically, it is a "where are we now?" article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was "about to be released" at that time. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works.
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I'm guessing that your lockups and Mandrake problems stem from the same thing. Either your disk is actually faulty, or Linux's driver for it is not very good at this point. If it weren't for the fact that your hardware is rather new, I'd be very worried about your hardware. But in your case it may indeed just be driver issues, especially since a lot of them might not be well tested in 64 bit mode.