From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 04:07:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC1916A41F for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:07:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from numard@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8647843D46 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:07:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from numard@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 19751 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2005 14:07:26 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Sep 2005 14:07:26 +1000 Message-ID: <4317CFF8.6030202@meijome.net> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:07:20 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Curious : why does the booloader say i386 on amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:07:28 -0000 FreeBSD/i386 boot # sysctl -a | grep machine hw.machine: amd64 hw.machine_arch: amd64 # uname -rms FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3 amd64 Is it common code between i386 + amd64? is it just a label ? do I have an old bootloader from a previous non-amd64 incantation (possible, though I'm pretty sure I dd'ed the first few megs of all drives before installing amd64...) cheers, Beto