From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OBELk-0004eh-Uc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 May 2010 21:47:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CC1BE0795; Sun, 9 May 2010 21:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E23E0795 for ; Sun, 9 May 2010 21:46:42 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuUFAKrK5ktFxKcR/2dsb2JhbACRVow+crpPhRUEiR+DFA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,358,1270440000"; d="scan'208";a="63776073" Received: from 69-196-167-17.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.196.167.17]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 09 May 2010 17:46:41 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 09 May 2010 17:46:55 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 17:46:55 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure Message-ID: <20100509214655.GA24191@waltdnes.org> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 1f64c435-e883-43dc-9f9b-1f31402c583a X-Archives-Hash: c003db68e5407499e799555f0e252c3f On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:49:01AM -0230, Roger Mason wrote > Egg on face. The processor is listed in the bios as Intel EM64T. > > Does that mean I should re-build this as an amd64 system? No, it's not necessary. 64-bit Intel and AMD cpus will run 32-bit mode without problems. It's your decision which one to use. General rule of thumb... - If you have 4 gigs or more of RAM, the 64-bit OS will take better advantage of it than a 32-bit OS. - If you have 3 gigs or less of RAM, stick with 32-bit. I'm running 32-bit mode on an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 and it works fine. -- Walter Dnes