Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:51:54PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: >> The multiarch media still has a small problem: for i386/amd64 they are >> no "fire and forget" thing; you still need to find out if you have an >> amd64 compatible system and start the amd64 boot process by hand. >> >> It would be really cool, if that could be autodetected... but I don't >> know how that could be done. > > Check if the processor has support for long mode? AIUI it only takes a > bit of assembler to do it (on a Linux system you can look for "lm" in > /proc/cpuinfo, but I suspect this has to be done before Linux is > booted).
Does d-i need to run in 64bit mode to be able to install a amd64 system? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
