[ale] Trouble with new Pentium D

[Trey Sizemore]

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:44:15 -0500
Chuck Huber <chuck at cehuber.org> 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

Likely this is a problem with the boot loader.

If you boot the installation system of 10.1 (assuming you have your
openSUSE 10.1 disk) and then select "boot installed system" (note, *not*
the one on the initial boot screen, the one inside the installation
system when it asks you what you want to do, "install, upgrade or boot
installed system") it should then boot.

Then you can fix the boot loader from YaST, by telling it to create a
new proposal.

Also, this is a 64-bit system, but is backwards compatible with 32-bit
apps.  However, at some point you may want to install the 64-bit
version of openSUSE (and try 10.2...it's nice ;-) )


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Cheers,
Trey
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