Adam Thornton wrote: > If you try to install, using the Debian-installer RC1 boot card decks, > from ftp.us.debian.org (on 15 Oct 2004), d-i tries to install the s390x > kernel. Since this is on an s390 system (31-bit) rather than an s390x > system (64-bit), installation fails pretty gruesomely. This means that > no one on an S/390 system can install. That's bad. RC1 is known to not work anymore, please use something newer. Have you tried with something a bit newer such as the daily builds and unstable? This sounds like you're using a rootskel before version 1.02, and so it doesn't know to use kernel-image-2.4.27-1-s390, and so the fallback code in base-installer, which selects from amoung the available kernels somewhat randomly, is running. I suspect that it doesn't help matters that the code in base-installer's postinst, in the get_arch_kernel function for s390 tries to use a kernel-image-$(uname -r). Since there is no such kernel image (it's missing "-1-s390" at the end), this makes it more likely to fall back to random selection. -- see shy jo
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