Subject: Re: fresh install hangs
To: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 01/18/2006 09:24:59
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:32:34PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> How do you know that it's not a 64-bit cpu?
> 
> Thanks.

It doesn't show the "long" mode cpuid bit, nothing in that dmesg indicates
it is in fact using "long mode".

I guess it's possible that the OpenBSD kernel does not report any of this,
and also does not use APIC mode by default, but the dmesg does not
make it appear like an amd64 chip.

- Frank