[ale] Trouble with new Pentium D

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

	Or just run Debian... No problem with Pentium D... Seems SuSe has issues...

jbouse at eragon:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2793.281
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm
constant_tsc up pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 5591.32
jbouse at eragon:~$ uname -a
Linux eragon 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 16:41:14 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
jbouse at eragon:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
4.0

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> What's keeping you?  I was running 64-bit Gentoo on an AMD64 in 2003...
> 
> Anyway, according to Wikipedia, the Pentium D is an
> EM64T-instruction-set machine, meaning that it's an x86-64 CPU. 
> 
> According to Wikipedia, x86 support is native within x86-64, suggesting
> that if a SuSE CD is complaining, then it's just because SuSE is being
> Microsoftean with their install process.
> 
> Just run Gentoo and be done with it... :)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> 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:
>> 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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