Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

craig@gtek.biz wrote:
> On Thursday, January 17, 2013 15:30, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <hvw59601@care2.com> said:
>
> > > I have a fairly modern Desktop PC with two Intel Xeon X5690 Processors. It
> > > appears the default install of Wheezy installed a 32-bit kernel, because qemu
> > > will not allow me to allocate more than 2047MB of RAM. How can I verify that
> > > is the case, and if so, can anyone point me to anything that might help me
> > > understand how to get a 64-bit kernel? Do I just need to select the correct
> > > ARCH (which I'm getting ready to try in the meantime)?
> > What's the output of
> >
> > dpkg --print-architecture
> > dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
>
> [my-desktop:~]$ dpkg --print-architecture
> i386
> [my-desktop:~]$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
> [my-desktop:~]$
>
> I assume, after a quick search of man dpkg, that I should probably add the
> correct architecture? Or is this telling us that I installed from the i386
> netinst iso (which I did), and that I need to re-install from the amd64?

AFAIK you have to reinstall with 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64-netinst.iso

Because adding a foreign architecture is only for adding its libraries 
to run some applications, not for running its kernel.

Hugo