[ale] Trouble with new Pentium D

[Michael Smith]

Should you see 2 cpu's here?

> 	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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