amd64/136161: sysinstall installs wrong architecture

[John Baldwin]

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 at 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