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Subject: Re: cpu does not support long mode
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Jo Rhett wrote:

> I've got a Tyan S2720 with dual Xeon 2.4G dual-core processors here that I 
> was going to test out 64-bit support with.  However, the system fails during 
> boot of the 7.2-RELEASE CD with
>
> warning: module 'acpi' already loaded
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> CPU does not support long mode
> OK

Is that "does not" or "doesn't"?

Do you have FreeBSD/i386 working on the machine?  If so, please install 
the misc/cpuid port and post the output of `cpuid'.

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Nate Eldredge
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