From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 6 22:05:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73EB99B5260 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stoa@gmx.us) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0600F1E59 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:05:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stoa@gmx.us) Received: from slack ([24.116.197.15]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MJByE-1ZP6uN3jxa-002opd; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:05:02 +0200 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:04:51 -0500 From: Dutch Ingraham To: Quartz Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: 64bit P4 vs mfsBSD Message-ID: <20150806220451.GA3683@slack> References: <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55C3D434.6030005@sneakertech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:489yiaMhN19xVJrCs+TTG6gtErzTSdhagGFxp8dIVNVcTtB1/SP fiEWTL8x9eBlWs7BAACZd+8q9nHXMtkR3ptDhfNoobWuO765neB9qhXTzDyqmBY1W7XpZ1M 1sX2RHsg4JJo+4d9Z10uelNmCu2HdTE9XmNdgz1416TAnhs/RiiS87w3RiQhiw6azz11QY9 zcyNxuVoLr1kKJ7xksxfg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:H/eFIzNBFZ0=:+kfRCpoawNPVFTVIaX6hcW NpEUvT1nNSBM+T7p2NE8O29jkeu0P0evb5WoV03aFy25+j+EgoC8awmUNRK7Ja3Ih8MxpTohs TLBmzA5aWEDO9XVkXwEJw9uHVUD5VsRDP87uwi2PEAFbP6jg4YO04B7ViFnN99pFI5TCsvC8b mOWY4vtkhll5nRACEtxB6CThFEfM32D5M/k2IXhYdKmeOJeMVQIqEHu6g1SAOSbRqHOBmKWjT ZiwtwmVzeWpxCvYfVnfQARRz5bFjemyfCcfwe+7OkS/qFYGHyHhZXRjIwvTBD9u95OiiD7NJB EDUIrurwow42aag6QZ/maROBVak9+adGCkU/xlVTrRLibJVX0dKNg3ow3Rp2yCmp82aUh4Lkl k2mgl6fbBLMrX0Br2IbVmSyhy8+5RzDsXgWYsObZA2v2WQ3DuFI3OBQFfPhwEBKyhP14vtb9U n+S3KlvA3KR//pwRkspxXwe8Zw7r3a9w7ApA0Q1mrtb1ZwWohS9CX+QtVghDu0pd11I1wBGjp tuKHpObj2ENf58OGebSIcQLpjkxnRSbx5+Av2ib92K9C6FhP/dmPOjs5viuMs2TlYBBSvFCEA kl1U/1OKE94CdaG1p/EUjiJ8CBRxJOq9MYI6x/RX1pBMa2I9hIHSCSLvGoZ50lSiRROCYPC/8 e2G+LL2XCqAXJjbvn0qQLvFD01Uc1w6mf22BLrI6Dj1yjag== X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 22:05:10 -0000 On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 05:40:04PM -0400, Quartz wrote: > 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? I'm not sure what this system is running right now, but can you get a dmesg that will advise of the processor attributes? You're looking for "LM," (long mode). If that is there, it is a 64-bit processor.