Bug#517121: debian-installer: installs linux-image-2.6-486 instead of linux-image-2.6-686 with a VIA C7-D Processor
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
debian-installer selects and does not allow changing the 486 kernel.
This processor supports a 686 kernel, and also the 486 kernel has some
drawbacks such as not supporting more than 1GB of RAM.
It showld detect the processor and install by default the corresponding
kernel.
Though it can be changed later with:
# aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686
below is the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo with this processor:
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : VIA C7-D Processor 1500MHz
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1499.990
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm nx up pni xtpr rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en
bogomips : 3002.89
clflush size : 64
power management:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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