[ale] Upgrade Has Caused A Downgrade

Robert Reese~ ale at sixit.com
Mon Jan 5 13:00:48 EST 2009


> All,
>
> I've just experienced one of the most unnerving situations.  I've a
> custom built machine that WAS running the following:
>     ECS GeForce 6100SM-M mother board
>     AMD 64 X2 5600+
>     4GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
>     nVidia GT7300 PCIE 256MB video card
>     2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 320 GB WD and 1 - 500GB Seagate      
> 550 watt Antec power supply
>     Fedora 9 x86_64 with all of the latest patches
>
> As my Xmas present I upgraded the machine to:
>     Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 mother board
>     AMD Phenom Quad core 9550
>     8GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
>     Retained the video card from above
>     2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 500 GB Seagate and 1 - 1TB Seagate  
>     850 watt Antec power supply
>
> I attempted to install, from the same DVD used on the original
> machine, Fedora 9 x86_64 with 4 failures at just about the same
> place while installing packages.  I used my i386 Fedora 9 DVD and
> all went well during the install so attempted to do a upgrade to
> x86_64 without luck.  I did a test using my Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD and
> it installed perfectly.  I then attempted to do a upgrade to Fedora
> 9 without any luck (it appeared to fail at about the same place).  
> I then downloaded and burned another copy of the Fedora 9 x86_64
> DVD, checked it and attempted to do another install and one again
> it failed at about the same place.
>
> What could possibly be happening?  I since reinstalled Fedora 8,
> but that has reached it's E-O-L. Should I just attempt to go to
> Fedora 10 x86_64?  Should I have entered something in the boot
> parameters concerning the additional memory?


It sounds like you are having mobo driver issues if I had to guess, or F8 isn't 
using all 4 CPUs or are treating them as a single unit.

Like I said, just a hazard at a guess.

R~



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