Bug#257301: d-i: default kernel choice on s390 is wrong
reassign 257301 base-installer
severity 257301 important
thanks
* Adam Thornton <adam@fsf.net> [2004-07-02 11:36]:
> At the default debconf priority, d-i for s390 attempts to install the
> 2.4.26-1 kernel for s390x, even on an s390 system. This fails, of
> course. Installation fails, and of course attempting to install a boot
> loader fails, which means the system is not usable.
>
> d-i should detect whether it's running on s390 (31-bit) or s390x
> (64-bit) and install the kernel appropriate to its architecture. Note
How can we determine this easily? Can we look in /proc/cpuinfo or
something like that?
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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