I tried booting it twice, once without framebuffer and once with it. Without framebuffer, it didn't recognize the boot partition. With the framebuffer, it came up to the main screen but the keyboard and mouse were frozen. This is a relatively new system (about a year old, Athlon64 X2, NVidia-based motherboard). It is running Gentoo ~amd64 just fine. Here's an "lspci" if that will help. # lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2) 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2) 00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 430 (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) The mouse is a logitech trackball and the keyboard is a cheap NX USB keyboard. "lsusb" says: # lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 062a:0201 Creative Labs Defender Office Keyboard (K7310) S Zodiak KM-9010 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button) Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 I'm going to try this on some older hardware later today. I doubt if I'll download and test the AMD64 LiveDVD -- the machine is very happy with the 2.6.25 kernel at the moment.
oops ... this should be filed under beta *2*!!
This should be fixed in 2008.0, which is now released.
