On Thursday 28 January 2010, Rainer Koenig wrote: > Would be nice to figure out the "why" behind this problem. My guess at > the moment is that it is related to > a) the CPU which is a new AMD dual core athlon > b) the 2.6.26-2-486 kernel that is used during the installation > > So I think there is a sort of "incompatibilty" on new Athlon processors > and the -486 kernel from Debian.
The problem you describe indeed sounds like a kernel problem. The first thing I would suggest to do is try if the Squeeze installer [1] (which currently uses a 2.6.30 kernel) still has the same problem. > Question is: Is there a easy (means debian like and good documented) way > to build a netboot image with a different kernel architecture. From my > understanding this would mean replacing both the kernel image as well as > all the modules that are provided from the initrd.gz image. You're in luck as the 686 kernel is already available as udebs. The steps are roughly as follows: - check out the lenny branch of the D-I source repository: svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/branches/d-i/lenny/installer - cd installer/build - edit config/i386.cfg and change -486 to -686 in KERNELVERSION - install build dependencies - build a netboot image using: make reallyclean; fakeroot make build_netboot - use either the netboot image itself, or the mini.iso Cheers, FJP [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org