Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:12:27PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>
>(Not sure which version is actually used for squeeze.)
>
>On i386 machines with RAM above the 4GB physical address, either PAE or
>LM (Long Mode, 64-bit) must be used to access that RAM. The preferred
>kernel flavour is '686-bigmem', with 'amd64' also being an option.
>
>However the amd64 flavour is on DVD 1 but the 686-bigmem flavour is on
>DVD 2. This means a single-DVD install with no network access will get
>the amd64 flavour if the system supports LM and the 686 flavour if it
>does not. The former is somewhat undesirable as third-party installers
>(and users) can get confused by a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userland.
>The latter is extremely undesirable as some RAM is then inaccessible.
>
>Similarly the amd64 flavour is currently on CD 5 but the 686-bigmem
>flavour is on CD 10. The 686-bigmem flavour should be increased in
>priority, certainly above the amd64 flavour, and should ideally be on CD
>1 or 2 (but I realise that there is tough competition for CD 1).
I've added linux-image-686-bigmem to
tasks/squeeze/interesting-fromcd23, which means that the -bigmem
kernels will get pulled in before packages from popcon. A test build
looks good, and I've back-ported the fix back to the squeeze branch of
debian-cd so that 6.0.2 should be correct.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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