http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556768 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556768#c0 Summary: Can't install 11.2 64 bit on an AMD 64 4000+ machine Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: 64bit OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mjtobler@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008103100 SUSE/3.0.4-2.2 Firefox/3.0.4 Downloaded the 64bit 11.2 iso, burned to DVD, ran md5sum on ISO and the resulting DVD (both fine) ... booted up and get the error message: "kernel requires an x86_64 cpu, but only detected an i686 cpu unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your cpu" @ren:~> dmesg | grep -i proc [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok. [ 0.000000] Detected 2411.583 MHz processor. [ 0.081629] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ stepping 0a [ 0.084001] Total of 1 processors activated (4823.16 BogoMIPS). [ 2.494343] processor LNXCPU:00: registered as cooling_device0 [ 10.711992] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) @ren:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 7 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow up bogomips : 2009.65 clflush size : 64 power management: ts fid vid ttp Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install DVD in drive 2. Boot up 3. Choose to "Install" Actual Results: "kernel requires an x86_64 cpu, but only detected an i686 cpu unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your cpu" Expected Results: Install executes and installs product (openSuse 11.2) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.