Re: Sarge and Athlon 64
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 07:22:10PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 07:27 -0700, michael bailey wrote:
>
> > Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit
> > software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a
> > Sempron which has AMD64 support built in, but I would not use the 64
> > bit capability ?
>
> It's always worth remembering that amd64 CPUs can run x86 code
> completely natively and so one can always "ignore" the fact that they
> are amd64 CPUs and just run a normal x86 distribution: that will work
> fine.
>
> You'd be correct in saying that you "won't be using the 64-bit
> capabilities" of the CPU, but those capabilities are only useful in
> certain contexts and you simply may not need them!
If you have a 64-bit Debian in one partition, and then you install
a 32-but Debian in another, and it sets up grub, will the
32-bit installation recognise the already present 64-bit installation,
and will the presumably 32-bit grup properly boot it?
-- hendrik
>
> Dave.
> --
> Please don't CC me on list messages!
> ...
> Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org
> All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/
> Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
>
Reply to: