FreeBSD i386 on AMD64

Brian brian at brianwhalen.net
Tue Mar 22 15:49:15 UTC 2016


I have been doing this for years because the disk this is on started on 
an i386 machine.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD numail 10.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 10.3-PRERELEASE #178 r297130: Sun 
Mar 20 20:45:02 PDT 2016 root at numail:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
$ grep AMD /var/log/messages
Mar 20 19:17:14 numail kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core 
Processor 4200+ (2204.65-MHz 686-class CPU)
Mar 20 19:17:14 numail kernel: Origin="AuthenticAMD"  Id=0x40fb2 
Family=0xf  Model=0x4b  Stepping=2
Mar 20 19:17:14 numail kernel: AMD 
Features=0xea500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
Mar 20 19:17:14 numail kernel: AMD Features2=0x1f<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8>
Mar 21 10:04:58 numail kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core 
Processor 4200+ (2204.64-MHz 686-class CPU)
Mar 21 10:04:58 numail kernel: Origin="AuthenticAMD"  Id=0x40fb2 
Family=0xf  Model=0x4b  Stepping=2
Mar 21 10:04:58 numail kernel: AMD 
Features=0xea500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
Mar 21 10:04:58 numail kernel: AMD Features2=0x1f<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8>


On 3/22/2016 8:37 AM, Teng Zhang wrote:
> hello,everybody , i want to know whether it's possible to run FreeBSD
> i386(non UEFI)on AMD64 platform(my machine is Thinkpad T420, includes UEFI)
> or not. Could you please tell me?
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