Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:30:18 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: fbsdmail@dnswatch.com, yaneurabeya@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will the amd64 be supported? Message-ID: <E1OKSIE-000GYr-C6@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <f6adbf13f35a421249d4122bca6aa3df.dnswclient@www.dnswatch.com>
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> I'm /really/ just trying to convert all my i386 boxen to amd64. ....this is the source of your problem. What you were trying to do in builing amd64 is correct, but only if you are already on an amd64 platform. Those instrcutions are for building the native architecture. If you want to convert an existing system 'in-lace' from i386 to amd64, then you need to get an install of amd64 on some portable drive that you can boot from, boot the machine on that, mount the original drive under '/mnt' or somewhere, and then do an 'installkernel' and 'installworld' specifying the mountpoint as the destination. It does work - but I would do it with a GENERIC kernel first before trying a custom kernel. Oh, and also you should delete all your ports beforehand and then rebuild them afterwards so they get rebuilt for amd64. I would not recommend the above though. You are better off doing an amd64 install froms cratch. Much less error prone. -pete.
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