Live cd 64bit stops at boot ad initrd freeing ramdisk

[awett]

with the 32 bit live cd of lm 9 everythink is fine when i use the 64 bit live cd the system freezes in normal and in save mode with the message initrd freeing ramdisk

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

Hi,

Please verify the following:

- md5 of the ISO you dowloaded
- Boot from the CD and choose check integrity

Then burn the CD at low speed (lowest possible) and try to reproduce the problem.

[awett (awetterauer)]

I did all these thing burn the cd in 5 differend drives at low speed (also different cd-r's)downloaded it several times the md5 was allways fine and it is reproducible every time initrd freeing memory and i even coudn t reach the cd checking menu an the disk on the other hand the 32bit didn ´ t made any of this problems

[awett (awetterauer)]

The only version which i was able to install was ubuntu 10.04 beta1 all versions after that release hangs at the same point i mentioned above

[awett (awetterauer)]

by this i mean the 64bit versions

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

awett, can you give us more information on your hardware?

I don't really see what the problem could be but you're saying it affects Ubuntu 10.04 as well so I'll mark it as upstream.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

Note: It looks like an isolinux problem to me though, isolinux in Mint and Ubuntu are completely different. It must be down to something they have in common in the initrd part that's loaded in the live environment... I don't see how that's needed to show the isolinux menu though, I thought it wasn't needed until a boot option was selected..

Awett: Are you sure your CPU is x86_64 compatible? Did you run 64-bit distros before?

[awett (awetterauer)]

At first the system i am talking about is an IBM Intellistation A Pro 6217 it is certified for windows xp 64bit and Vista 64 bit and it was although delivered with Red Head 64 bit it uses 2 opteron 250 Single Core Cpus has 4 Gb RAM so i think it is 64 bit capable. I was able to install and use Ubuntu 10.04 64bit beta 1 runs like a dream and since beta2 it came to the stop in the boot process at the point initrd freeing.....centos 5.4 64bit runs fine too.

[awett (awetterauer)]

Still the same @ LM 9 64bit final dvd and cd both stop 32 bit still fine