Xin LI wrote:
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Karl Denninger wrote:
Xin LI wrote:
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Hi, Karl,
Karl Denninger wrote:
I have a machine that can run either (proved, I can boot the AMD-64
release disk)
Can I SOURCE UPGRADE from one to the other? That is, is it possible to
do a "make buildworld", "make buildkernel" and then "make installkernel"
and wind up with AMD64 instead of the 32-bit code?
Or must I reinstall?
It APPEARS I can run most 32-bit code on a 64-bit system. Not all
works, but most does.
This is sort of "doable" but "highly recommend you not to do that"
thing. The simplest way to do 32-bit to 64-bit upgrade would be to
backup your data, install from scratch, then restore data; mixing 32-bit
and 64-bit stuff together, especially without 32-bit stuff moved to the
right place, is among the most terrible mess you wanted to avoid.
Online "upgrade" can be done if you have your 64-bit world/kernel built
and installed into a separate directory (i.e. make world kernel
DESTDIR=/path/to/a/temp/place), then drop into single user mode, then
tar then pipe to another tar to extract the whole thing to /, but this
is really a "foot, gun, shoot" thing.
Cheers,
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Xin LI <delp...@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/
Hmmmm.... I was thinking something like this (I have the cvsup tree on
the machine)
1. Compile into /usr/robj for amd64 (if I can figure out how to get make
to do it - the obvious, MACHINE_ARCH=amd64, does not work - it barfs.)
2. Intentionally break the mirror (just in case) from the controller;
I've now got a clean bootable drive if something goes wrong.
3. "make installkernel" (install new amd64 kernel)
4. Reboot
Now, the question - will the 32-bit executables RUN under the 64-bit
kernel under single-user so I can "make installworld"?
Yes as long as you compiled COMPAT_FREEBSD32 you can run 32-bit
executables under a 64-bit kernel, but, you need to be careful since the
dynamic linker would have different name.
Or do I get screwed instantly when I reboot?
There is a reason we don't recommend doing that :)
Cheers,
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Xin LI <delp...@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/
ROFL! Ok, I get it. I'm asking to get hosed as soon as I reboot.....
I CAN reload the machine but it would take the machine out of service
for MUCH LESS TIME if I could do it this way; a full reload is going to
take a couple of hours, where I can do it that way in ~5-10 minutes of
downtime.
Of course if its going to blow up.....
I guess I need to schedule the 2-3 hours of downtime..... the reason for
this, by the way, is that I have a dbms app on there that is getting too
RAM hungry for its own good (its a Quadcore CPU) and I'm up against the
RAM limit for 32-bit code. The board will support more but 32-bit code
won't; ergo, the only way to get beyond this is to go to 64-bit.
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Karl Denninger
k...@denninger.net
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