From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 23 18:20:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0B616A402 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:20:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4657413C47E for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:20:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (zcdsdy@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0NIK7Qs082583; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:20:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id l0NIK79c082582; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:20:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:20:07 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200701231820.l0NIK79c082582@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brody@versehost.com In-Reply-To: <20070123144903.9594813C4C1@mx1.freebsd.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:20:13 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: Image not booting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brody@versehost.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:20:14 -0000 VH-Brody wrote: > I've downloaded multiple copies (from different FTP servers), > 6.2-RELEASE-ia64 and it seems like this particular image doesn't want to > boot up in my system. The i386 and amd64 distro's bootup just fine, but > obviously don't work because system architecture is 64bit Intel. I'm out of > ideas and I've ruled out the system as at fault. > > What do you guys think? I think you're confusing ia64 and amd64. Most likely your system is amd64-compliant, _not_ ia64. If it was ia64, then the amd64 CD wouldn't boot at all (i.e. it would be dead right from the start). If the amd64 CD boots successfully, then you definitely have an amd64-compliant system, and both amd64 (for a 64bit system) and i386 (for a 32bit system) should work fine. If you have problems installing amd64 later on, then please tell us exactly what the problem is (i.e. at which step during installation, what have you tried, what are the error messages, etc.). When the and64 CD has successfully booted to the sysinstall utility, you can press the ScrollLock key and then the PageUp key to scroll back through the boot messages. At the top there should be a line telling you what kind of CPU exactly your system has. Hope that helps. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. -- Larry Wall