[64studio-devel] unable to boot 0.9.5 on dual opteron machine.

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> Daniel James writes:

  DJ> Hi Free,
  >>I was trying to
  >>change the config of the amd64 version of the 2.6.18 and I just missed
  >>that we are dealing with i386 here :(

  DJ> In Joel's case, yes, but Ben had the same problem on amd64.

Ok, thanks, I see then..

  DJ> In /boot/config-2.6.18-1-multimedia-amd64 on my machine it says:

  DJ> CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
  DJ> CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y

  DJ> It's under 'Processor type and features'.

  DJ> I also have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y there, so maybe HPET options are
  DJ> hidden in menuconfig.

Yes, I know, but I still can't  find a way  to set them off. Trying to
do that manually with

# CONFIG_HPET_TIMER is not
# CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE is not set

makes  the   config  process complain, and    it  wants  to set  again
HPET_TIMER to yes..

Ciao,

Free