[ale] Trouble with new Pentium D

Chuck Huber chuck at cehuber.org
Tue Jan 9 09:44:15 EST 2007


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Good morning,

I finally got tired of the old 500MHz AMD with 384M of memory and
upgraded to a new motherboard and CPU with 1G of RAM.  The HDD's already
have Suse 10.1 installed.

After swapping everything over, I found that the system would not boot
off of either of the HDD's even though the bios was correctly
recognizing the make and model of each.  The new motherboard has only
one IDE interface, so I swapped one of the drives for a CD and booted
off of an old Suse 9.2 CD.

The message was something like "Cool computer, but you're trying to run
32-bit software on a 64-bit machine."  Being the tinkerer I am, I told
it to boot the rescue system.  It loaded the linux kernel and promptly
locked up.

The CPU is a Pentium D, which is supposed to be a 32-bit dual core.

If it is a 64-bit machine, will I have to replace all the applications
with 64-bit versions?  (vmware and winxp being the most problematic).

Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks,
    - Chuck

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