amd64/136161: sysinstall installs wrong architecture

Yuriy Glukhov yuriy.glukhov at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 18:30:07 UTC 2009


The following reply was made to PR bin/136161; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yuriy Glukhov <yuriy.glukhov at gmail.com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org,
 freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/136161: sysinstall installs wrong architecture
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:57:14 +0300

 Yes, after booting from a pen drive "uname -a" displays amd64 arch.
 
 If the arch is hard-coded to sysinstall, could it be that the wrong  
 sysinstall is installed on the pen-drive? I'm not sure if the  
 sysinstall just copies itself during the installation or it downloads  
 itself with another packages from ftp. In second case it could be  
 explained with an incorrect ftp distribution.
 
 Best regards,
 Yuriy Glukhov.
 
 On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:40 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
 
 > 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
 


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