On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM Clint <cl...@syntheticnation.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 10:52:46AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: ... > > btw, if you have hardware which is capable of running amd64, that would > > be my first recommentdation. > > Yeah. That's also probably best. > > Doesn't look possible on this system though. > > > sysctl hw.machine > hw.machine=i386
That just tells you the type of kernel you're under and nothing about whether the hardware can run anything else. To see whether your machine can run the amd64 kernel, look at the dmesg (ala /var/run/dmesg.boot) and check whether the cpu0,etc lines advertise the "LONG" cpu flag. Philip Guenther
