Hi.

I tried to install Slackware 15 on a server that has Intel Xeon E5-2690, under Oracle VirtualBox 7. The error message was that this needed a 64-bit system.

OSs that successfully handled an install were Debian12, SuSe, Fedora39, sidiuction, ubuntu23, and manjaro, all currently running successfully.

Slack has that in common with Haiku -- they both issue the same message, as does gparted.

I searched "Intel Xeon E5-2690" here and found nothing.

Suggestions? Thanks ... cheers makyo

( Data from inxi -c0 )
CPU(s)~2 Octa core Intel Xeon E5-2690 0s (-HT-MCP-SMP-)
speed/max~1200/3800 MHz Kernel~6.5.0-18-generic x86_64 Up~2 days
Mem~18834.8/225477.8MB HDD~8386.0GB(0.0% used) Procs~853
Client~Shell inxi~2.3.0

Could you please provide us with the Make and model of your machine? This will help us be better able to locate resources such as manuals provided by the OEM and which function key that it is required to be pressed BIOS set up utility.Secondly could you please provide the LQ community with the necessary log files which are most commonly found in the /var/logs folder.

Hi.

This is the data from command lshw on the host running Ubuntu 22, through CPU 1 (of 32). There are 2000+ lines in the full report. What specific log files do you desire -- there are 60+ log files. Please remember that the slackware is booting into a VM under Virtualbox, so the second listing is from the first part of /var/log/installer/hardware-summary for a successfully installed VM of Debian12. Today Solaris was successfully installed as a VM on this host. ... cheers, makyo

Machine name: lobs
description: Rack Mount Chassis
product: System x3650 M4 -[7915AC1]-
vendor: IBM
version: 0B
serial: KQ6N4MR
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.7 dmi-2.7 smp vsyscall32
configuration: boot=normal chassis=rackmount family=System X uuid=82662da2-c8be-11e2-b2c2-84a763bf7496
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 00Y8494
vendor: IBM
physical id: 0
serial: 35Y0CJ
slot: Blade
*-cpu:0
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.45.7
slot: Socket 1
size: 1199MHz
capacity: 4GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz
capabilities: lm fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 a
pic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good
nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl
vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_d
eadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm epb pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow flex
priority ept vpid xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts vnmi md_clear flush_l1d cpufr
eq
configuration: cores=8 enabledcores=8 microcode=1818 threads=16
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 3
slot: Internal Cache Level 1
size: 64KiB
capacity: 64KiB
capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back instruction
configuration: level=1
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 4
slot: Internal Cache Level 2
size: 256KiB
capacity: 256KiB
capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back unified
configuration: level=2
*-cache:2
description: L3 cache
physical id: 5
slot: Internal Cache Level 3
size: 20MiB
capacity: 20MiB
capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back unified
configuration: level=3

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uname -a: Linux vm-debian 6.1.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.76-1
(2024-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [N
atoma] [8086:1237] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Nato
ma/Triton II] [8086:7000]
lspci -knn: 00:01.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4
IDE [8086:7111] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ata_piix, ata_generic
lspci -knn: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VMware SVGA II Adapter [15
ad:0405]
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter [15ad:0405]
lspci -knn: 00:03.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabi
t Ethernet Controller [8086:100e] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter [8086:0
01e]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e1000
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: e1000
lspci -knn: 00:04.0 System peripheral [0880]: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH Virtua
lBox Guest Service [80ee:cafe]
lspci -knn: 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801A
A AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:2415] (rev 01)
...

The above ubuntu machine is running on a 64-bit CPU as you in the CPU flags have "lm".

However, you have one more level to consider: The virutalization provided by virtualbox. From the point of the guest operating system it does not matter much what kind of hardware is being used by the host operating system. The guest operating system only sees the virtual CPU and PCI devices provided by the virtual environment.

Is the above Ubuntu running as the host or in a virtual environment? As it has a VMWare VGA adapter it seems as if it could be running in a virtual environment. Did you configure your Slackware virtual environment the same way as you configured your Ubuntu virtual environment?

If you for some reason would prefer to give your Slackware virtual machine a 32-bit environment only there are also Slackware for 32-bit intel compatible machines.

regards Henrik

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I also guess the slackware guest is not configured correctly. Make sure in general it is configured for linux 64 bit. Vboxmanager does automatically detect and configure most distributions but not slack.

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Hi.

Thanks henca and michaelk.

I found a setting in VBox for "Other/Unknown (64-bit)" and selected it. That allowed the install to proceed to the next hurdle

It seems odd that such a setting was not done automatically, but live and learn ... cheers, makyo

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