Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:30:06 GMT From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: amd64/136161: sysinstall installs wrong architecture Message-ID: <200907131730.n6DHU6j7046719@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/136161; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: Yuriy Glukhov <yuriy.glukhov@gmail.com>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64/136161: sysinstall installs wrong architecture Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:40:33 -0400 On Monday 29 June 2009 10:42:22 am Yuriy Glukhov wrote: > > >Number: 136161 > >Category: amd64 > >Synopsis: sysinstall installs wrong architecture > >Confidential: no > >Severity: non-critical > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: freebsd-amd64 > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 29 14:50:00 UTC 2009 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Yuriy Glukhov > >Release: 7.2 > >Organization: > >Environment: > FreeBSD test.localdomain 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > >Description: > 1. Install an amd64 distribution on a USB pen drive. > 2. Install the pen drive to a Xeon server. > 3. Boot from the pen drive. > 4. Run sysinstall, and install (standard installation) the OS to the local HDD, using one of FreeBSD FTPs. > 5. Remove the pen drive and boot from the HDD with newly installed system. > 6. Observe the uname -a. > > Actual result: the architecture is i386. > Expected result: the architecture should be amd64. Are you sure you had amd64 on the pen drive (verified with uname -a). The arch to install is hard-coded into the sysinstall binary at build time such that an amd64 sysinstall can only install an amd64 release. -- John Baldwin
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