Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 -0500 From: eculp@unixmania.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one. Message-ID: <20070627145452.ytifppt70oc480s8@intranet.unixmania.com>
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I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz =20 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor =20 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel =20 with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old =20 configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I =20 have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and =20 was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make =20 buildkernel KERNCONF=3DAMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is =20 an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that didn't work either. The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be =20 compiled ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing =20 something very simple. I'm actually going to update serveral machines, both Current and =20 RELENG. All of which are up to date. Hopefully there will be no =20 major problems. I also plan to recompile all ports once I am able to =20 build and install an AMD64 world and kernel. Right now all is working =20 fine with todays, sources and kernel except they are compiled for Intel. Any other suggestions appreciated. Maybe someone might recommend =20 upgrading the RELENG boxes to CURRENT first? Thanks, ed
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