Bug#240109: marked as done (install: Installer puts wrong kernel in boot partition [powerpc-newworld])
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Subject: install: Installer puts wrong kernel in boot partition [powerpc-newworld]
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I used the installer downloaded thru jigdo today (3/25/2004) to install
to an unused partition on my iMac. It booted fine, ran like a champ,
very nice work! It didn't write a bootloader, which I thought was odd
but I soon found out why.
I booted my old system, took a look at the boot partition on the new
system and saw the kernel was an apus kernel. The shortcut was
vmlinuz, not vmlinux as it has been in the past, and pointed to the
apus vmlinuz kernel which had been installed. I haven't actually tried
manually booting this kernel -- it doesn't look right!
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : 740/750
temperature : 48-51 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 350MHz
revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
bogomips : 697.95
machine : PowerMac2,1
motherboard : PowerMac2,1 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 66 (iMac FireWire)
pmac flags : 00000005
L2 cache : 512K unified
memory : 128MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:36:15 +0100
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: 240109-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: install: Installer puts wrong kernel in boot partition [powerpc-newworld]
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Package: base-installer
Version: 1.14
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:46:29PM +0000, Chris Tillman wrote:
> I booted my old system, took a look at the boot partition on the new
> system and saw the kernel was an apus kernel. The shortcut was
> vmlinuz, not vmlinux as it has been in the past, and pointed to the
> apus vmlinuz kernel which had been installed. I haven't actually tried
> manually booting this kernel -- it doesn't look right!
This should be fixed with the base-installer kernel selection rewrite.
It won't even offer kernels that don't match the machine's
subarchitecture now, much less select them by default.
base-installer (1.14) experimental; urgency=low
NOTE: not for sarge, needs rootskel 1.11
* Frans Pop
- Add sanity check in postinst for empty COMPONENTS to guard against
ugly and difficult to trace errors from debootstrap. Closes: #283510.
* Joey Hess
- Moved debian-installer/kernel/image, debian-installer/kernel/image-2.6,
debian-installer/kernel/linux/initrd,
debian-installer/kernel/linux/initrd-2.6 from rootskel.
* Colin Watson
- Merge experimental kernel selection improvements branch:
+ Consolidate all the uname calls to find the kernel version into one
place.
+ Split per-architecture kernel handling out of the postinst into one
script per architecture, with an interface to the postinst that
allows base-installer to pick a usable kernel even if the one it
actually wants isn't on the CD. See kernel/README.
+ Add a test suite for kernel selection. See kernel/tests/README.
+ Make sure all the kernels displayed in
base-installer/kernel/which-kernel are usable.
- Use chrp 2.4 kernel on all powerpc chrp* subarchitectures, even
chrp-rs6k. The chrp-rs6k 2.4 kernel is to be removed.
- Fix arch_get_kernel output on s390, and explicitly disallow -s390-tape
and -s390x (documenting why).
- Map lasat subarchitecture to r5k-lasat flavour on mipsel.
- Rename debian-installer/kernel/* to base-installer/kernel/*.
* Martin Michlmayr
- Add tests for various mips and mipsel subarchitectures.
* Updated translations:
- Bosnian (bs.po) by Safir Å eÄ?eroviÄ?
- Catalan (ca.po) by Jordi Mallach
- Italian (it.po) by Davide Meloni
- Dutch (nl.po) by Bart Cornelis
- Romanian (ro.po) by Eddy Petrisor
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:52:20 +0000
Cheers,
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