Hoary Install on AMD64 with SATA Drive

[Byron Poland]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:05:23 -0500, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:25:47 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:48:12PM -0500, Byron Poland wrote:
> > > I know this was sort of mentioned in the Array 3 notes, but I wanted
> > > to report this to the list.  I just put together an AMD64 box based on
> > > the Abit AV8 motherboard.  The Hoary Live Cd released the other day
> > > works great.  And yesterday's daily installed.  However for some
> > > reason grub doesn't seem to get installed, or isn't functionable.  As
> > > the Bios tries to and off to the bootloader and it just hangs there.
> > > (Blinking cursor after the "Verifying DMA Code........"  There  is a
> > > post indicating the same problem in the forums, saying Suse 9.2 worked
> > > fine.
> >
> > It appears to be a kernel bug, which as far as I can tell has not yet
> > been fully diagnosed or fixed:
> >
> >   http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.3/1083.html
> >
> > I'm still trying to track it down in the absence of any input from
> > linux-kernel.
> >
> > > A fix or a work around would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Starting the installer with 'linux noexec=off' may be a workaround,
> > although of course it removes all the protections that the NX bit gives
> > you.
> 
> Well I gave this a shot, and it didn't seem to get me anywhere new.
> still no grub installed as far as I could tell.  I am in the middle of
> a warty install right now, and am in the 2nd phase, so I know grub was
> installed okay.  FYI, I was using the Feb. 1 Daily install for AMD64,
> with the linux noexec=off boot, and it didn't work.
> 

Well I installed warty, and am having a lot of trouble updating to
hoary. I've switched over the apt sources, and try a apt-get
dist-upgrade, and it downloads about 500 packages, and then says a
whole bunch are corrupted, and I saw a message about amd64 not being
in the map or something.