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Well I have many systems.. Why is the hardware important, may I ask?

My most used is of coarse my laptop.
A cheaper Compaq Presario CQ56
2gb ram
500gb HDD
Intel Celeron 900

many custom servers, all with different hardware, but all having Intel processors.
all have dual xeons.
a lot of different specs,
Mostly supermicro motherboards,
anywhere from 500GB to 2TB HDD space.

Plus ALL my systems run different OS's mainly..
I have four that run CentOS looking forward to upgrading to either Red Hat Enterprise Linux if I manage to spend that much on them, or ill see how the new AcendOS and GoOSe Enterprise Linux Server distros look when they come out.
I have other boxes that run SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Mandriva Enterprise Linux, Elastix, OpenBSD, FreeNAS, OpenIndiana, Zerowall, pfSense, and Solaris.
looking forward to running others as well...
I just love different systems. Smilie

Looking to get an old Sparc server from the now novell acquired Sun Microsystems. They sell for extremely cheap second hand on eBay. So I would like to get a couple of those for a solaris rack. Anyone heard of the new SmartOS from Joyent? Amazing set up.. Amazing! I may just dedicate them to that! But well see.

So I guess you could add that to the list. Sparc processors. But like I said I would want to mainly focus on x86 processors if possible.

@Scrutinizer
Thanks. that's cool to know.
Isn't HP-UX discontinued? I think that was the first Unix system I looked into. I thought they discontinued that in favour of switching their focus to Linux.
I don't have a Itanium processor unfortunately but I think it would be nice to have at least one machine with one IA. I will look into getting on on eBay as well if I manage to find one cheap enough.

So is there any others ??

Thanks for everything so far.

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GRUB-FILE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      GRUB-FILE(1)

NAME

       grub-file -- Check if FILE is of specified type.

SYNOPSIS

       grub-file (--is-i386-xen-pae-domu | --is-x86_64-xen-domu |
		  --is-x86-xen-dom0 | --is-x86-multiboot |
		  --is-x86-multiboot2 | --is-arm-linux | --is-arm64-linux |
		  --is-ia64-linux | --is-mips-linux | --is-mipsel-linux |
		  --is-sparc64-linux | --is-powerpc-linux | --is-x86-linux |
		  --is-x86-linux32 | --is-x86-kfreebsd | --is-i386-kfreebsd |
		  --is-x86_64-kfreebsd | --is-x86-knetbsd |
		  --is-i386-knetbsd | --is-x86_64-knetbsd | --is-i386-efi |
		  --is-x86_64-efi | --is-ia64-efi | --is-arm64-efi |
		  --is-arm-efi | --is-hibernated-hiberfil | --is-x86_64-xnu |
		  --is-i386-xnu | --is-xnu-hibr | --is-x86-bios-bootsector)
		  FILE

DESCRIPTION

       grub-file is used to check if FILE is of a specified type.

OPTIONS

       --is-i386-xen-pae-domu
	      Check if FILE can be booted as i386 PAE Xen unprivileged guest kernel

       --is-x86_64-xen-domu
	      Check if FILE can be booted as x86_64 Xen unprivileged guest kernel

       --is-x86-xen-dom0
	      Check if FILE can be used as Xen x86 privileged guest kernel

       --is-x86-multiboot
	      Check if FILE can be used as x86 multiboot kernel

       --is-x86-multiboot2
	      Check if FILE can be used as x86 multiboot2 kernel

       --is-arm-linux
	      Check if FILE is ARM Linux

       --is-arm64-linux
	      Check if FILE is ARM64 Linux

       --is-ia64-linux
	      Check if FILE is IA64 Linux

       --is-mips-linux
	      Check if FILE is MIPS Linux

       --is-mipsel-linux
	      Check if FILE is MIPSEL Linux

       --is-sparc64-linux
	      Check if FILE is SPARC64 Linux

       --is-powerpc-linux
	      Check if FILE is POWERPC Linux

       --is-x86-linux
	      Check if FILE is x86 Linux

       --is-x86-linux32
	      Check if FILE is x86 Linux supporting 32-bit protocol

       --is-x86-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is x86 kFreeBSD

       --is-i386-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is i386 kFreeBSD

       --is-x86_64-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 kFreeBSD

       --is-x86-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is x86 kNetBSD

       --is-i386-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is i386 kNetBSD

       --is-x86_64-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 kNetBSD

       --is-i386-efi
	      Check if FILE is i386 EFI file

       --is-x86_64-efi
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 EFI file

       --is-ia64-efi
	      Check if FILE is IA64 EFI file

       --is-arm64-efi
	      Check if FILE is ARM64 EFI file

       --is-arm-efi
	      Check if FILE is ARM EFI file

       --is-hibernated-hiberfil
	      Check if FILE is hiberfil.sys in hibernated state

       --is-x86_64-xnu
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 XNU (Mac OS X kernel)

       --is-i386-xnu
	      Check if FILE is i386 XNU (Mac OS X kernel)

       --is-xnu-hibr
	      Check if FILE is XNU (Mac OS X kernel) hibernated image

       --is-x86-bios-bootsector
	      Check if FILE is BIOS bootsector

SEE ALSO

       info grub

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