* [email protected] <[email protected]> [2011-12-12 16:06]: > 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 machine was not capable of running amd64 you could never have installed it. these machines don't even get to the copyright line. > It booted and installed, but it is > perhaps not the right image. Should I use an > intel image? there is no AMD without 64. amd makes i386 cpus, too. intel makes amd64 cpus, too. they use marketing names. we name architectures and stick with them. > BTW: the ethernet on the motherboard (Asus K8U-X) does not work. > "Acer Labs M5263 LAN" rev 0x40 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured indeed. never heard of it, might be as simple as a missing pcidevs entry and driver matching code entry, might require a new driver from scratch. or something in between. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
