Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:04:51 -0500 From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> To: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 64bit P4 vs mfsBSD Message-ID: <20150806220451.GA3683@slack> In-Reply-To: <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com> References: <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com>
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On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 05:40:04PM -0400, Quartz wrote: > 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? I'm not sure what this system is running right now, but can you get a dmesg that will advise of the processor attributes? You're looking for "LM," (long mode). If that is there, it is a 64-bit processor.
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