Gentoo for AMD64 [Archive]

Bok

02-28-2004, 07:13 PM

Anyone running this ?

I've just got hold of an AMD64 3200+ on an Asus SK8V and am about to install Gentoo (downloading the livecd atm)

I've already got Suse 9.0 for AMD64 installed on an opteron 144 but I suspect Gentoo will be a lot better.

Bok :D

Dyyryath

02-28-2004, 10:54 PM

Ah, I'd love to hear what you think. I'd love to see some benchmarks of 32bit vs 64bit binaries, too!

pointwood

03-01-2004, 03:43 AM

Yearh, that would be pretty interesting!

I would expect Suse to do pretty well though since I believe they have been quite a bit involved in adding x86-64 support to Linux.

Gentoo do have a whole forum for it too: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=46&sid=682560996eee698ce1dc5cf2d2c3533f

Good luck :)

I believe http://aceshardware.com have done at least a few 32bit vs 64bit benchmarks.

Bok

03-01-2004, 09:43 AM

Well, I haven't got it to work (yet!)

The liveCD does not find the nic, but that's a straighforward modprobe sk98lin. A known problem apparently.

So I went on and did a stage 1 install. Everything was fairly smooth, using gentoo-dev-sources as the kernel (2.6.3). Btw, emerge system took between an hour and 90mins, not sure exactly as I just left it..

Manual kernel config as genkernel does not work for AMD64.

Grub has an issue with AMD64 but again the workaround is quite easy. So I finished the install last night.

Rebooted and chose my kernel and it does not boot :bang: Get's fairly far and then reboots itself, it's a little too fast to find out what is going on. Last thing I see is that it can't open a terminal session... but I'm not sure that will be causing the error or not.

I'll see if I can read through the forums tonight and get it running. It is however running off the liveCD right now. I''ve got it on OGR and it's currently sitting around 16.5M/s!!

Bok :swear:

IronBits

03-01-2004, 10:05 AM

I have been having problems with Mandrake and windows amd64 drivers for the NIC.
benchies for the 64bit dnet client is slower than the 32bit ;(

Bok

03-01-2004, 10:23 AM

IB,

which motherboard are you using ? Suse seems to me to be the easiest install and it's very nice :)

Bok

Darkness Productions

03-01-2004, 01:40 PM

Bok - that's what the Scroll Lock key on your keyboard is for ;)

IronBits

03-01-2004, 07:59 PM

Albatron K8X800 Pro II

Originally posted by Bok
IB,

which motherboard are you using ? Suse seems to me to be the easiest install and it's very nice :)

Bok