Bug#642296: base-installer: on IBM Power 740 installer selects 32bit ppc kernel despite booting with install64

Package: base-installer Severity: important On a Debian 6.0.2 netinstall on an IBM Power 740 the installer installs a 32bit kernel despite starting the installation by booting the install64 option in yaboot. When setting compatibility mode to Power 6 for that LPAR the correct 64bit kernel gets

Bug#641852: installation on IBM Power 740

details see http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/09/msg00039.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/09/msg00050.html Updating yaboot to version 1.3.16-4 and changing the yaboot configuration boot= to a real device path of /dev/sda1 in my case fixed this. -- Benedikt Wegmann