On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 12:56 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> > The installtion itself worked great but d-i failed to install an
> > appropriate kernel for Xen Paravirt so the system failed to boot.
> > To fix this up I mounted the partition in the dom0 and installed the
> > correct kernel. d-i installed linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 while it
> > should have picked linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 (this also pulls in
> > libc6-xen via a Recommends). Seems base-installer/kernel/i386.sh
> > needs an detect_xen_paravirt?
>
> d-i should have installed the 686-bigmem image when running under Xen
> due to the use of the 686-bigmem kernel for the Xen variant of the
> installer. I'll investigate why this didn't happen.
It seems to be down to:
> > /proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id : CentaurHauls
which due to the changeset below which will cause the installer to
choose the -486 kernel.
Strangely the 686 kernel seems to work for you in dom0 and domU but I
guess you were just lucky somehow? Or is the changeset below too
general?
Ian.
commit 66aeb43385f358ea05f23413d4de014529a243ef
Author: lunar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun Aug 17 00:11:12 2008 +0000
Use -486 flavour for all CentaurHauls processors
As they lack long NOP instructions, -686 kernels since 2.6.22+ fail to
boot on these processors even if they claim 686 compatibility.
(Closes: #492751)
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
48c42b26-1dd6-0310-b98f-a58d8bce7237
diff --git a/packages/base-installer/debian/changelog
b/packages/base-installer/debian/changelog
index 7f66c6d..5025d2f 100644
--- a/packages/base-installer/debian/changelog
+++ b/packages/base-installer/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ base-installer (1.94) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Allow to select driver inclusion policy for initramfs-tools
Closes: #494466
+ [ Jérémy Bobbio ]
+ * i386: Use -486 flavour for all CentaurHauls processors. As they lack long
+ NOP instructions, -686 kernels since 2.6.22+ fail to boot on these
+ processors even if they claim 686 compatibility. Closes: #492751
+
-- Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:50:35 -0300
base-installer (1.93) unstable; urgency=low
diff --git a/packages/base-installer/kernel/i386.sh
b/packages/base-installer/kernel/i386.sh
index 6204765..e0a607d 100644
--- a/packages/base-installer/kernel/i386.sh
+++ b/packages/base-installer/kernel/i386.sh
@@ -34,17 +34,10 @@ arch_get_kernel_flavour () {
esac
;;
" CentaurHauls")
- case "$FAMILY" in
- " 6")
- case "$MODEL" in
- " 9"|" 10") echo 686$BIGMEM ;;
- *) echo 486 ;;
- esac
- ;;
- *)
- echo 486 ;;
- esac
- ;;
+ # x86 VIA Nehemiah CentaurHauls does not boot with -686
+ # since 2.6.22+ since they lack long NOP instructions.
+ # See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/22/263
+ echo 486 ;;
*)
echo 486 ;;
esac
--
Ian Campbell
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