On 11/09/2013 06:08 AM, didier gaumet wrote:
The machine is an Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard, IA64 "Sandy Bridge" architecture,[...] On the Asus website, this is not an IA64 motherboard, but a X86-64 (amd64) one. Trying an amd64 version of Debian could help...
On the ASUS website the board has an Intel Chipset with LGA 2011 CPU socket: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X79/#overview LGA 2011 is compatible with Intel 64-bit processors including "Sandy Bridge:" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_2011 And that seemed to clinch it, except that the damn thing wasn't working, so I went to a third source and discovered why I was wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/amd64 The news to me is that INTEL ever deigned to release something whose instruction set is commonly known as AMD-anything. I've been assuming that "Intel 64" would be "IA64" instruction set and "AMD 64" would be "AMD64" instruction set. So... You're right. I shouldn't have said "IA64" in the first place, to describe either of the machines this is from. I should have said "Intel 64-bit processor" which I had been assuming was the same thing. More to the point I should not have downloaded the IA64 images. Thank you. Ray