Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2016-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I had this just yesterday. The libraries of the SystemRescueCD are not 64 bits. So, you have to proceed as follows. Boot RescueCD with the alternative 64 bit kernel (and select the option to load all files into memory) mkdir /oroot ... mount the partition where you installed Gentoo o

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2016-05-04 Thread John Blinka
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > SystemRescueCd has boot menu options for picking the kernel, just pick > either rescue64 or altker64. > I did try that at least once, but I think I compensated for doing the right thing at that point with making mistakes elsewhere. I'll g

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2016-05-04 Thread John Blinka
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Ron Farrer wrote: > > Generally, 'uname -m' should report x86_64 for 64-bit (amd64) and i686 > for 32-bit (x86). uname -m did give x86_64, but... > ... another check can be 'file /sbin/init' which will report as something > along the lines of > "/sbin/init: EL

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2016-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 May 2016 12:08:22 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > I had read similar thoughts about booting into a 64 bit environment > before posting and had gone to some effort to figure out whether the > sysrescuecd kernel was, in fact, 64 bit. Its /proc/config.gz seemed to > indicate 64 bit, as did una

[gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-05-04 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Therefore, I check the configuration of grub2 and fstab. Then I found > > that I forgot to modify mount options in fstab. > > The option of my boot partition was set as noauto. So that I don't use > > the kernel compiled by myself at all. > We've all don

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2016-05-04 Thread Ron Farrer
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 9:08 AM, John Blinka wrote: > > I had read similar thoughts about booting into a 64 bit environment before > posting and had gone to some effort to figure out whether the sysrescuecd > kernel was, in fact, 64 bit. Its /proc/config.gz seemed to indicate 64 bit, > as did unam

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2016-05-04 Thread John Blinka
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > You should use the AMD64 handbook, not the x86 handbook, if you're trying > to > install on x86_64 hardware. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64 > > More importantly, you should be booted into a 64-bit environment. That > means >

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2016-05-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Wednesday, May 04, 2016 09:58:37 AM John Blinka wrote: > Hello, Gentooers: > > I have a new Dell 17 5759 with core i5-6200U skylake cpu on which I'm > trying to dual boot windows 10 and gentoo. All the rest of my gentoo > hardware is much older, so this new laptop introduces 2 technologies new

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stop ls from quoting output

2016-05-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/05/16 20:07, Daniel Quinn wrote: Some time ago after an update |ls| started returning output that looked like this: |8hOk25T.jpg 'Janeway Wallpaper-iPhone.png' 'Screenshot from 2016-04-06 16-15-15.png' microsoft.png 'Away mission Wallpaper-iPhone.png' 'Screenshot from 2016-03-18 14-29-06.p

[gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

2016-05-04 Thread John Blinka
Hello, Gentooers: I have a new Dell 17 5759 with core i5-6200U skylake cpu on which I'm trying to dual boot windows 10 and gentoo. All the rest of my gentoo hardware is much older, so this new laptop introduces 2 technologies new to me: uefi and 64 bit kernels. I installed gentoo using the x86 h

Re: SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] ATLAS@home and VirtualBox

2016-05-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 18:47:39 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Tue, 03 May 2016 09:56:29 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > What is the approved method of reading change-logs nowadays? > > If you are using git sync, just go to /usr/portage/sci-misc/boinc > and run `git log .` there. > > If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DRM Problem : Radeon HD 7670M

2016-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 May 2016 13:06:45 +0800, JingYuan Chen wrote: > I found that I made a big mistake after I installed kernel 4.4.6. My > laptop still used kernel 4.1.5 to boot. It come as a surprise to me. > > Therefore, I check the configuration of grub2 and fstab. Then I found > that I forgot to modify