core 2 duo conroe E6600

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CompNerd · Post by **CompNerd** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:06 pm

Most of the hardware works, though beware that if your motherboard has a JMicron IDE controller, then you will not be able to boot the livecd off of it. In order to get that to work you will need to pass the all-generic-ide parameter to the kernel when booting.

Also, you will want to use the 2.6.18 kernel to ensure that the scheduler is able to use both cores.

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:45 pm

You could also try out either my:

"stable"
or "experimental"
livecds with JMicron-Support

then later, if your system's up you can try out 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 or 2.6.18-rc4-mm2 [are they officially supported by gentoo ?] (those two should work fine with Jmicron)

Edward Nigma · Post by **Edward Nigma** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:08 am

Right now i´m also building a new system with a E6600 but i´m not sure wich motherboard i will buy.
What about SATA DVD-Roms with Linux. Are they supportet?

agent_jdh · Post by **agent_jdh** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:15 am

kernelOfTruth wrote:then later, if your system's up you can try out 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 or 2.6.18-rc4-mm2 [are they officially supported by gentoo ?] (those two should work fine with Jmicron)

There are certainly mm-sources ebuilds (2.6.18-rc6-mm2 for ~arch now), don't know how official they are - I guess as official as any other kernel that's in the vanilla portage tree.

firesox · Post by **firesox** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:17 pm

Hi all,

I want to build a k8 system inside a nocona installation. As I read both archs are nearly the same, except that in k8 the 3dnow flag is set. So, if it is set: can a nocona system handle that inside a chroot installation on this nocona installation?

tia

Edit: Is there any generic arch like i686, but for 64 bit systems?