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

[craig@gtek.biz]

On Thursday, January 17, 2013 17:08, "Andrei POPESCU" <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> said:

> On Jo, 17 ian 13, 13:09:46, craig@gtek.biz wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> 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
> 
>     uname -a
> 
>> 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)?
> 
> Currently the only 32-bit kernel in wheezy without PAE support for i386
> is the -486 flavour, but the installer would not install that unless
> your processor(s) are not supported by the other images.
> 
> If this is indeed the case ('uname -a' will tell) and you can reproduce
> it you might want to send an installation report.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

Hi Andrei,

I used the i386 net install image, and selected the (if I remember correctly)
i686-3.2.0-4-pae kernel. Are you saying that should have installed the 64-bit
kernel or that I got the 32-bit kernel I did't realize I was asking for?

I've begun the process of re-installing with the amd64 net install image, but
on a separate hard drive. I can still boot into the original system, but I did
install the linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 package yesterday. The only dependency
installed with it was firmware-linux-free:i386.

I'll be happy to post the install report from that install if you would still
like to see it.


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