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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:14:30 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Tue Aug  7 02:44:36 2012
> > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:41:41 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> > To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
> > Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?
> >
> > >> That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC
> > >
> > > Jason: It looks like you may have installed the 64-bit distribution on your
> >
> > nonsense. 64-bit distribution doesn't run on 32-bit computer.
> 
> *PRECISELY* why the OP is having problems.   He _is_ trying to build amd64
> kernel on 34-bit only processor.
> 
> Unlike "Wojciech the infallible" people _do_ get things wrong on occasion.

That's why the statement "you may have installed the 64-bit
distribution" Wojciech refered to as "nonsense": On a 32 bit
system, the 64 bis OS version should not run. So the OP seems
to be using the (correct!) 32 bit OS version, but trying to
compile the 64 bit kernel (from /sys/amd64/conf instead of
from /sys/i386/conf). Therefore, it's a matter of having
chosen the wrong kernel config, not the wrong OS version. :-)




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Polytropon
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