On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:11:52AM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:45 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:25:31PM +0400, Paul A. Anokhin wrote: > > > It seems like a half of this maillist traffic is generated by people > > > mistakingly trying to use ia64 instead of x86-64 version. And I have > > > to admit that compared to the rest of the internet this is pretty good > > > error ratio :) > > > > > > Probably the ia64 port should be named something like "ipf" or > > > "itanium" to avoid confusion. After all, ia64 is no longer the > > > official name for the architecture AFAIK, and I think the change was > > > caused by the same reason. > > > > Renaming a port because of something like this isn't really an option > > - a better answer, imo, would be to modify the ia64 cds to display a > > splash screen on x86 hardware that explains the issue. > > > > How would ia64 CD display anything on x86 if it can not boot even???
add isolinux to the el torito image with a splash screen -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
