Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 01:52:00 -0800 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@doramail.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, "Erich Dollansky" <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel EM64T Processor Platform Message-ID: <20050529095200.A464523EF70@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com>
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I just tried installing from cd, got a kernel panic, going to try doing the= steps you mentioned below in a few. Do the old ports still work or will th= ey all need to be recompiled? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@doramail.com>, "Erich Dollansky" <oceanare@pacifi= c.net.sg>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel EM64T Processor Platform Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 03:43:37 -0500 >=20 > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:14:42AM +0200 I heard the voice of > Roland Smith, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > I'm not sure if it is even possible to convert (recompile) an > > existing install from i386 to amd64. >=20 > I did it on 5.3-RELEASE, since amd64 doesn't have install floppies. > The process went something like: >=20 > - Cross-build the world and kernel (TARGET_ARCH=3Damd64). > - Temporarily appropriate your swap partition, newfs it, mount it on > /mnt. > - Do an installworld and installkernel DESTDIR=3D/mnt. > - Reboot and fiddle around in the boot loader to set the right rootdev > to boot off that partition. I can't remember which param needs > tweaking... > - Mount your regular partitions under /mnt (you may have to make > symlinks for src and obj to get it to work right). > - Do another installworld and installkernel onto /mnt (this /mnt now > being your real filesystems). > - Boot normally. Reclaim your swap partition. >=20 > Some notes: > - These installworlds may need to be done with make -k, since there's > some weirdness I came across. > - You may have to do another buildworld/installworld afterward, just > to make sure everything is clean. The cross-build, for instance, > didn't seem to build the i386 compatibility libraries and dynamic > loader. And there's the errors that made me -k the installworlds... >=20 > A fairly long process, but not too difficult. >=20 >=20 > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net > Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ > On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. ~Jack~ --=20 _______________________________________________ Get your free email from www.doramail.com with 30 Megs of disk space in web= hosting and e-mail storage! Powered by Outblaze
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