On 04/10/2013 10:04 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 10.04.2013 15:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> 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 > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos