On Dec 22, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Bruce Cran wrote:
AMD64 CPUs are backwards compatible with i386; they boot in 16-bit
real mode and only get switched into 64-bit 'long mode' by the kernel
later on. Since both i386 and amd64 start booting in the same way,
there's no need for separate bootloaders.
snowcrash+freebsd wrote:
hi,
i've FBSD/amd64 62Rp9 installed. kernel & world are my own builds
from latest cvsup.
on boot I see:
"FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader"
odd. i'd expect a native loader ...
checking in,
/usr/src/sys/boot > ls
Makefile alpha/arm/ efi/ forth
hi,
i've FBSD/amd64 62Rp9 installed. kernel & world are my own builds
from latest cvsup.
on boot I see:
"FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader"
odd. i'd expect a native loader ...
checking in,
/usr/src/sys/boot > ls
Makefile alpha/arm/ efi/ forth/ia64/ pc98/
spa
