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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?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com



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