On 04/10/2013 10:04 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 10.04.2013 15:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:

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I believe my new platform is suppose to be an x86_64. The order form says 64 bit.

I booted Centos 6.3 i386 liveCD to check the system out before an install.

uname -i

reports i386

no wonder, you boot a i386 kernel

OK. I can 'llive' with this. Just somewhere in some forgotten past I picked up that uname would still recognize that it was on a 64bit system even with the i386 kernel.

simply boot a x86_64 liveCD hence i have not seen x86 systems since years

Simply type "grep flags /proc/cpuinfo" and if you see lm you have a 64 bit CPU based system

thanks

[root@rh:~]$ grep flags /proc/cpuinfo | grep lm flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid