[CLUE-Tech] AMD64 MB recommendations?

[dperkins at techangle.com]

>>>I just ordered it for a friend, and will be building the box for him on
>>>Tuesday, so check back with me if you want and I'll let you know how it
>>>works.  It does have an Nvidia chipset though as this guy is a windows
>>>only user.  If any of you have Suse 9.1, or any other distro working
>>>good on an nvidia based board, let me know! The Suse 9.1 installer just
>>>locks up on me before I can even hit F2 to see it posting info, so I
>>>don't even know what's hanging it.
>>
>>
>> Well, I'm not much interested in running Windows only on it... is this
>> SuSE 9.1 for x86, or their 64-bit distro that you're having problems
>> with?
>
> My box at home is only 32 bit, Athlon XP 2500+ on an Nforce2 board. When
> I try to boot off the 9.1 CD (disc 1) I just see the little Suse lizard
> guy and a progress bar, which promptly hangs at about 5% across the
> screen.  Hitting F2 does nothing, and neither does Alt-F(1-10).  I
> thought I had a bad CD, so I tried booting off the 32 bit DVD that came
> with it, and I get the same thing.  I then tried a new CD rom drive of
> a different manufacturer, and again, the same thing happens.  I was very
> disappointed because I was looking forward to getting 9.1 running at
> home.  I should also mention I have an SATA hard drive. which I thought
> kernel 2.6.x supports if I'm not mistaken.
>

I tried a live CD version of Suse last week on my Athlon64 and it booted
fine.  I assume it's a version of 9.1 because it came with the lastest
issue of Linux Format (or was it Linux User & Developer?).

My 2.6 kernel boots from a SATA drive, so hopefully that should not be a
problem.  I don't recall if I had to compile SATA support.