[ale] wrong kernel after debian squeeze install

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

There are different debian installers for i686 and AMD64. You most likely
downloaded the wrong ISO.
On Oct 18, 2011 12:15 PM, "John Heim" <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

>    All,
>
> This morning I installed debian squeeze on a machine with an AMD64 CPU. But
> the installer never asked me which kernel I wanted and it put a 686 kernel
> on the thing.  Why did it do that and how can I make it either ask me or
> make it default to a 64 bit kernel? Below is some of the output from
> getSystemId & 'cat /proc/cpu_info'. Maybe a clue as to what the problme is
> that if I do a uname -p, it says my processor is unknown. Maybe linux can't
> ID  my CPU and therefore doesn't know its 64 bit?
>
> Product Name: PowerEdge SC1435
> BIOS Version: 1.1.2
> Vendor:       Dell Inc.
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> model name      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2210
>
> # uname -p
> unknown
>
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