Ubuntu
base-installer package

Please install itanium kernels on all ia64 boxen for edgy

Bug #66971 reported by LaMont Jones
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
base-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
LaMont Jones
Ubuntu ubuntu-6.10

Bug Description

The current mckinley kernel appears to be broken in edgy. Fortunately, the itanium kernels will run on itanium2 and later machines, albeit maybe a bit slower.

Please abuse base-installer into always installing the itanium kernel, rather than the mckinley kernel, even on itanium2 hardware. We'll be investigating the mckinley kernel problem, but we don't expect that it will get in for edgy release.

thanks.

LaMont Jones (lamont)
Changed in base-installer:
assignee: nobody → kamion
importance: Undecided → High
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
LaMont Jones (lamont) wrote :

Actually, hold off on that for a bit... seems to work sometimes...

Changed in base-installer:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
Revision history for this message
LaMont Jones (lamont) wrote :

Looks like either strange hardware, or heisenbugs. closing until I can reproduce the bug reliabily (or at all, for that matter.)

Changed in base-installer:
assignee: kamion → lamont
importance: High → Medium
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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