Re: 64 bit downloading and kernel upgrade problem
- From: Alan Ianson <agianson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:12:56 -0800
On Mon November 20 2006 05:12, Arvind Marathe wrote:
Hi all,
Few months back, i first started fiddling around with linux and debian.
Now that i am a little more experienced and have got some free time, i
decided to make my system more efficient. Earlier i had installed a lot of
unnecessary things (whole of gnome and kde etc) and it was not working at
full efficiency. My motherboard is intel915 with 3.4G processor and 1G
Really!? I have an amd athlon64 running at 1.8 Ghz with 512M ram and I find
gnome and kde run well. I also have a full gnome/kde install and I run them
to their fullest with no problem.
Have no fear, with that box you have there you can load up about anything you
like I'm sure.
RAM. So initially i did a clean install by downloading minimum bootable
i386 stable version from net, copying it on a cd and installing it. I only
loaded x-window system and it was quite fast. Now since hyperthreading is
allowed on my system, i was told ia64 debian version should work and also
give better performance, so i downloaded that from the same site. However
when i copy this on a cd and try to boot, it says:
Reboot and select proper boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected boot device
This happened for both netinst image and business card image. Any ideas
why this would be happening? I would like to upgrade to 64 bit if
possible. (I downloaded both i386 and ia64 images from the site:
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
but i386 version works, ia64 doesn't)
So i went back to i386 and decided to upgrad my kernel because 'dmesg'
always warned that 'memory usage was not optimal, only 896M would be used,
upgrade kernel.' I used 'apt-get install' to install appropriate kernel
version 2.6.x (earlier was 2.4.x) but when i try to boot using this
version, i get 'kernel panic' message...also it shows some scsi disk
errors, but i have no scsi disks. The entries in /boot/grub/menu.1st seem
fine (i.e. it shows /dev/hda1 for root filesystem which is what i have).
Is there anything else i need to do? I did try some things suggested
online but didn't work.
So basically i need guidance on two things:
1> Can i use 64 bit version on my machine? would that improve performance?
Yes, as long as it is a 64bit cpu. What does 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' say? The
64bit system runs just like the 32bit one does, it is the way of the future
(until the 128bit system that is!). You can use (a lot) more than 4G ram with
a 64bit system.
2> How to upgrade kernel?
As Michael said the device names change from a 2.4 -> 2.6 kernel, a long with
a few other things like that. I would follow what he said and change your
fstab accordingly and see how it goes. My system runs sarge amd64 nicely but
some folks have problems with hardware (sata), you may need to upgrade to
etch to get hardware support if sarge won't go.
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