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Date:      Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:40:04 -0400
From:      Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   64bit P4 vs mfsBSD
Message-ID:  <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com>

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Not sure if this is the right place to ask mfsBSD questions.

I have an old Pentium 4 server and I'm trying to figure out exactly what 
the cpu is, but I don't want to have to disassemble the whole thing if I 
can avoid it. Intel's cpuid utility, various linuxen, and wikipedia are 
giving me conflicting info about the model and 64bit-ness, so I thought 
I'd see what sysctl had to say and boot mfsBSD.

... except it doesn't work. I tried both 10.0 i386 and 10.1 amd64 and 
both of them hang. 10.1 amd64 gets to the beastie menu, but regardless 
if I select multiboot or single user it gets as far as the white-on-blue 
"Booting..." and then just stops. 10.0 i386 seems to die somewhere in 
stage two before the menu even appears. It's not a case of corrupt 
download or borked build because the same jumpdrive boots my other 
machine just fine.

Any thoughts?



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