On 12/12/11 11:02, [email protected] wrote: > Peter Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wikipedia says 'AMD64 supported by: all models with an OPN ending in >> BX and CV' and 'E6 stepping or later' > > It seems I have a BO: SSE3, but not AMD64 according to dmesg. > > Henning Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> this one is a no-brainer. [...] boot amd64 bsd.rd. >> either it boots or it doesn't. > > How do you exclude the possibility of something in > between?
If you find a chip which boots bsd.rd and installs but doesn't boot AMD64 *due to a processor compatibility problem*, you have found something surprising. You are looking for a problem no one else has managed to find. There are more productive things to worry about. The only thing I have seen even close to an issue (and that's a very liberal use of the word "close") was a similar Sempron chip and board which I have that showed problems with the PXE code faster than anyone elses machine seemed to. But that was running OpenBSD/i386. :) > It booted and installed, but it is > perhaps not the right image. Should I use an > intel image? there is no AMD without 64. No idea what you are saying there. It works, it will almost certainly keep working. > > BTW: the ethernet on the motherboard (Asus K8U-X) does not work. yeah, looks like a stinker... > "Acer Labs M5263 LAN" rev 0x40... Nick.
