Hi, first of all I want to thank anyone who made this AMD64 port possible. But now here are my experiences: The system is a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (S939 nForce4 Ultra) with a SATA-2 HDD on the primary nForce SATA-2 port. For my first installation attempt I used the 125MB netinst iso (2005-01-24 I think). Installation worked quite fine with that one exception that it had no networking modules and no support for [reiserfs | ext3 | xfs ] so I had to use ext2 which I really don't like for a desktop system. But after installation I was able to boot it up using grub which was installed at the last step of the installer. Because I definitely want a journalling FS (no ext3 <--> reiserfs flamewar now , please) I tried to make a new install using mini.iso (2005-02-10). I had both, the normal and the monolithic one. The monolithic failed when trying to debootstrap so I had to use the non-monolithic one. With it installation worked fine (with one little exception, it didn't automatically detect my network hardware, I had to load forcedth.ko by hand), I selected debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org as mirror and /pure64/ as mirror folder, reiserfs ok, debootstrap ok, installing base system ok, installing grub ok. Then when installer finished it reboots the system but now grub won't start, it only gives me a dead loop of the line Grub loading stage 1.5 repeating again and again. Btw. the HDD is detected as /dev/sda using sata_nv.ko, is this correct). Also tried this with ext3 and xfs, same problem. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Tobi
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