Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

[Dale]

felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:42:42PM -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> From my understanding, someone correct me if I am off here, AMD sort of
>> beat Intel to the 64 bit thing.  So, it sort of got named amd64 even tho
>> Intel came along later on and the name just stuck.  That's a very short
>> version of the story and I think that is how it went but someone may
>> come along and correct something.
> I sort of knew that, but I haven't kept up with all the processor
> names, and linux the kernel merged x86 and amd64 in some fashion, or
> was it x86 and x86_64?  /usr/src/linux/arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is a
> symlink to the x86.  It's all very confusing, and one of the gentoo
> docs says iCore2 is Xeon, so what do I know about iCore7?
>
> Kernel compile finished, 16 minutes (SSD sure speeds it up).  I'll
> finish the setup tomorrow.  At some point I have to figure out where
> Ubuntu hides the boot config so I can add an entry for the gentoo install.
>


I didn't say it wasn't confusing.  ;-)  Heck, I think I asked questions
here when I built my new rig which is sort of the reason why I
remember.  From some discussions I have seen, I think some CPUs need a
rocket scientist to figure out what to use.  I'm sure there is a rule
book somewhere.  lol 

Put your kernel and such on /boot and run update-grub if I recall
correctly.  I installed Kubuntu for my brother and it has grub2 which
has some magic sprinkled on it.  I'm not sure how to tell it where to
point for the root partition tho.  That may require a thread here if
google doesn't help.  I might add, you may get better Ubuntu answers
here than from the Ubuntu folks.  I'll forgive you if everyone else
will.  ROFL

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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