From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 6 21:40:13 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9506A9B5C00 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 21:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from douhisi.pair.com (douhisi.pair.com [209.68.5.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78F39EB0 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 21:40:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from [10.2.2.1] (pool-173-48-121-235.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [173.48.121.235]) by douhisi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 289633F731 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:40:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:40:04 -0400 From: Quartz MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD questions Subject: 64bit P4 vs mfsBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 21:40:13 -0000 Not sure if this is the right place to ask mfsBSD questions. I have an old Pentium 4 server and I'm trying to figure out exactly what the cpu is, but I don't want to have to disassemble the whole thing if I can avoid it. Intel's cpuid utility, various linuxen, and wikipedia are giving me conflicting info about the model and 64bit-ness, so I thought I'd see what sysctl had to say and boot mfsBSD. ... except it doesn't work. I tried both 10.0 i386 and 10.1 amd64 and both of them hang. 10.1 amd64 gets to the beastie menu, but regardless if I select multiboot or single user it gets as far as the white-on-blue "Booting..." and then just stops. 10.0 i386 seems to die somewhere in stage two before the menu even appears. It's not a case of corrupt download or borked build because the same jumpdrive boots my other machine just fine. Any thoughts?