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[Peter Van Epp <>]

        NDT itself works fine on 64 bit CPUs. I have it on a SUSE 10.3 box
(but we built it from scratch not the NDT CD) on an IBM P510 PPC quad
CPU Power5 box. I have another copy on an older 32 bit Athelon (also on SUSE
installed from scratch). 
        The messages you are getting sound more like a Linux / Knoppix kernel
issue (it doesn't recognize the CPU) than NDT. I have an Athelon 64 machine
(an HP s3300f in fact) at home and recently booted a Knoppix 5.1 CD on it 
without problem (but not the NDT ISO, just a stock Knoppix CD). If you have 
one around try booting the machine with a Knoppix CD (without NDT) and see if 
that works. If you have someone (or are someone :-)) that can modify kernels 
installing web100 isn't all that hard (we were raising the excitement level by
also installing the PF-RING mods which does make the configuration a lot more
exciting :-)) and I expect that will work. If I get ambitious perhaps I'll
pull down a copy of the NDT ISO and try it on one of the HPs :-).

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Murphy, William  wrote:
> I am trying to boot the NPT v1.9 CD on an AMD Athlon 64 HP Desktop and I
> am getting errors like "microcode unsupported CPU 0" and it finally dies
> by dropping to a "very" limited shell because it can't find the Knoppix
> filesystem...  I have tried a variety of cheatcodes and I have tested by
> CD in a genuine Intel laptop and it boots just fine.  Does anyone have
> any suggestions or can someone confirm that NPT works/does not work on
> Athlon?  Thanks...
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> Bill Murphy
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