Bug#261371: install report: amd64 works ok
clone 261371 -1 -2
reassign -1 os-prober
retitle -1 os-prober: add amd64 tests (reuse i386's?)
reassign -2 base-installer
retitle -2 base-installer: add kernel guesswork for amd64
thanks
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 06:04:45PM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote:
> First, the windows partition wasn't detected by os-prober. A previous
> install with a i386 d-i image did find it. Most likely caused by the
> ntfs module being absent.
Nah, amd64 has ntfs-modules; it's just that os-prober hasn't been taught
what to do on amd64 yet. Bug cloned.
> Second, although I have an AMD cpu d-i installed an Intel Xeon
> kernel-image. It does boot and seems to be working good enough to
> install an k8 kernel-image.
> In the logs I found a note that the installer didn't know what the
> amd64 architecture was and it looked like it just defaulted to the
> first non-netboot kernel it could find.
Right, base-installer needs to be educated here.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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