Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:10:58 +0100 From: Jase Thew <bazerka@beardz.net> To: Jayton Garnett <jay@codegurus.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem Message-ID: <435EC992.70909@beardz.net> In-Reply-To: <435EBC2F.1010806@codegurus.org> References: <616C3CA2-AC7C-4688-B97F-35911A6C270B@syz.com> <435EBC2F.1010806@codegurus.org>
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Jayton Garnett wrote: > Hello, > > You should be using the IA-64 version of FreeBSD as these are Intel > chips and nor AMD chips? > FreeBSD 5.4 IA-64 is for the Intel EM64T/Xeon/Itainium CPU's, FreeBSD > 5.4 AMD64 is for the AMD 64/x2/Opteron/FX CPU's. > > You will have more luck using the IA-64 release, I am not sure if you > can cvsup the source and rebuild the IA-64 version so you might have to do a > fresh install, and since you have backups of your databases it should > not take you longer than 1hour to get it all running smoothly again. > > Kind regards, > Jayton Garnett > Hiyas, This is incorrect. The IA-64 builds are for Intel Itanium and Itanium-2 processors only [1]. The AMD64 builds are the correct ones to use for both AMD64 and Intel EM64T processors when 64-bit support is required [2]. Regards, Jase Thew. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-ia64.html#PROC-IA64 [2] http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-amd64.html#PROC
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