From: Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure [solved]
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 12:48:12 -0230 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y65hbmfaiq3.fsf_-_@perthite.esd.mun.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100509214655.GA24191@waltdnes.org> (Walter Dnes's message of "Sun, 9 May 2010 17:46:55 -0400")
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> writes:
> 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.
I did some reading and found that Grub does not work on this hardware.
I installed and configured lilo and the system booted.
Cheers,
Roger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-10 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-06 8:37 [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure Roger Mason
2010-05-06 11:52 ` Mick
2010-05-06 12:38 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-06 12:51 ` Mick
2010-05-06 13:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 13:34 ` Dale
2010-05-06 14:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 15:03 ` Dale
2010-05-06 15:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 16:03 ` Dale
2010-05-07 6:28 ` Mick
2010-05-07 8:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 14:19 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-09 21:46 ` Walter Dnes
2010-05-10 15:18 ` Roger Mason [this message]
2010-05-07 8:51 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-05-06 14:25 ` Stroller
2010-05-06 15:37 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-06 16:03 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-05-06 16:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-07 7:07 ` Andrea Conti
2010-05-07 10:03 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-07 11:30 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-05-07 13:33 ` Roger Mason
2010-05-08 14:16 ` [gentoo-user] Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label claude angéloz
2010-05-08 19:30 ` Mick
2010-05-10 16:01 ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 20:00 ` Mick
2010-05-12 20:47 ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 21:47 ` Mick
2010-05-12 21:59 ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 22:22 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-05-13 21:08 ` Stroller
2010-05-13 22:12 ` Mick
2010-05-13 23:21 ` walt
2010-05-14 11:34 ` Tanstaafl
2010-05-14 12:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-14 14:45 ` Tanstaafl
2010-05-15 14:58 ` walt
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