Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 12:53:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: migrating -current machine to amd64 Message-ID: <20040530125215.O87435@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1085733682.1155.15.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1085733682.1155.15.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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On Fri, 28 May 2004, Sean McNeil wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I just replaced my motherboard with an athlon64 and got everything > working great in 32-bit mode. I'm very interested in gradually moving > everything to 64-bit. So I tried the following: > > make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 buildworld > make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 buildkernel > make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 installkernel > > This gave me an amd64 kernel that started to boot but had some problems > looking for /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1. I tried copying ld-elf.so.1 to > ld-elf32.so.1 and got farther. But then later it core dumped with > swapon and sh. I can drop into sh, though, so I'm not sure why it core > dumped. amd64 doens't currently support a 32-bit world too well. You'll need to replace everything, which is hard to do iwith an upgrade-in-place. I'd recommend just reinstalling or upgrading via a CD. I know peter's been working on the mixed 32 bit mode stuff but I don't know what the status of that is. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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