[ale] Trouble with new Pentium D

[Jeff Hubbs]

What's keeping you?  I was running 64-bit Gentoo on an AMD64 in 2003...

Anyway, according to Wikipedia, the Pentium D is an
EM64T-instruction-set machine, meaning that it's an x86-64 CPU. 

According to Wikipedia, x86 support is native within x86-64, suggesting
that if a SuSE CD is complaining, then it's just because SuSE is being
Microsoftean with their install process.

Just run Gentoo and be done with it... :)

- Jeff

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I thought that you could always run 32-bit Linux on a 64-bit machine.  I
> would love to run 64-bit Linux but as Chuck stated maybe in a few
> years.....
>
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 09:44 -0500, Chuck Huber wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I finally got tired of the old 500MHz AMD with 384M of memory and
> upgraded to a new motherboard and CPU with 1G of RAM.  The HDD's already
> have Suse 10.1 installed.
>
> After swapping everything over, I found that the system would not boot
> off of either of the HDD's even though the bios was correctly
> recognizing the make and model of each.  The new motherboard has only
> one IDE interface, so I swapped one of the drives for a CD and booted
> off of an old Suse 9.2 CD.
>
> The message was something like "Cool computer, but you're trying to run
> 32-bit software on a 64-bit machine."  Being the tinkerer I am, I told
> it to boot the rescue system.  It loaded the linux kernel and promptly
> locked up.
>
> The CPU is a Pentium D, which is supposed to be a 32-bit dual core.
>
> If it is a 64-bit machine, will I have to replace all the applications
> with 64-bit versions?  (vmware and winxp being the most problematic).
>
> Any ideas would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>     - Chuck
>
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