hmmmmmm..... interesting!
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Kevin Fries <
kevin@fries-biro.com> wrote:
> Just because you are running a 64bit machine, that does not mean you are
> running a 32bit OS. The version of Ubuntu you installed was probably 32
> bit. You can install a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit machine, just not the
> reverse.
>
> HTH
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 13:28 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> > Thanks Kevin. I see in my cpuinfo flags that I support long mode too.
> > But why, when I tried to install that in the kernel, did it complain
> > until I put in the 32 bit version?
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kevin Fries <kevin@fries-biro.com>
> > wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > Linux is nothing if not a chatty beast ;-)
> >
> > To find out everything you every wanted to know about your
> > CPU, you can
> > look at /proc/cpuinfo.
> >
> > My system I am on right now is a System76 Lemur, and it runs a
> > I3
> > mobile. If I look in that file, I will see:
> >
> > vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU U 330 @
> > 1.20GHz
> > cpu MHz : 1199.000
> >
> > among other things. But the real keys to the kingdom is a
> > field called
> > FLAGS.
> >
> > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
> > mtrr pge mca cmov
> > pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
> > syscall nx
> > rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl
> > xtopology
> > nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2
> > ssse3 cx16
> > xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat dts tpr_shadow
> > vnmi
> > flexpriority ept vpid
> >
> > You Google those flags and you will find out EXACTLY what your
> > CPU does
> > and does not support. So, to answer your question
> > specifically, I look
> > in the flags and see a flag "lm", which stands for "long mode"
> > which is
> > uber-geek speak for 64bit mode.
> >
> > And sure enough, my system is running Ubuntu 11.10 in 64 bit
> > mode.
> >
> > Hope this Helps
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 12:38 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> > > 1- I D/L a distribution
> > > 2- because I have no RW DVDs I burn the CD version
> > > 3- I install the CD version
> > > 4- After running the the install there is an ICON that says
> > 'upgrade
> > > to the DVD' so I upgrade
> > > 5- my system starts to panic when running off of the battery
> > so it is
> > > wisely suggested to upgrade my kernel. So I am doing so it
> > asks me
> > > what kernel I am running. It had been said on the list that
> > my kernel
> > > is the 64 bit kind but when I tried to upgrade to the 64bit
> > kernel the
> > > computer complained and said 'wrong architecture'.
> > > 6- I installed the kernel for the i386 and have been happily
> > running
> > > it now for a couple of days
> > >
> > > Questions:
> > > Was I supposed to do something to make it see that it is a
> > 64?
> > > Would it run if an i386 was installed on a 64?
> > > Does it really matter?
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