"Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> writes: > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:49:01AM -0230, Roger Mason wrote > >> Egg on face. The processor is listed in the bios as Intel EM64T. >> >> Does that mean I should re-build this as an amd64 system? > > No, it's not necessary. 64-bit Intel and AMD cpus will run 32-bit > mode without problems. It's your decision which one to use. General > rule of thumb... > > - If you have 4 gigs or more of RAM, the 64-bit OS will take better > advantage of it than a 32-bit OS. > > - If you have 3 gigs or less of RAM, stick with 32-bit. > > I'm running 32-bit mode on an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 and it > works fine.
I did some reading and found that Grub does not work on this hardware. I installed and configured lilo and the system booted. Cheers, Roger
