[ale] Trouble with new Pentium D

[Christopher Fowler]

I thought that you could always run 32-bit Linux on a 64-bit machine.  I
would love to run 64-bit Linux but as Chuck stated maybe in a few
years.....

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:44 -0500, Chuck Huber wrote:
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> Good morning,
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> 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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