The problem we find here is that part of the installation jumps into a 
chroot mode on the live file system where 64 bit binaries live and can not 
be run by a 32 bit kernel.  Any ideas for this part?

Brian D. Haymore
University of Utah
Center for High Performance Computing
155 South 1452 East RM 405
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112-0190

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Sean Dague wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:09:20PM -0700, Brian D. Haymore wrote:
> > Are others seeing any issues with being able to get systemimager to 
> > install 64bit linux x86_64 distributions?  I have seen reports of devfs on 
> > a 2.4 kernel for x86_64 being a known bug and in later versions if you 
> > enable x86_64 it forces devfs to be disabled.  We have had a 2.6 kernel 
> > tested to try to use that as part of the pxe boot to allow devfs to work 
> > again but it seems devfs is depreciated in the 2.6 kernel in favor of a 
> > new variant.  I'm really just after finding if anyone has been able to 
> > install a x86_64 distribution via system imager to compare notes with.  
> > Thanks in advance. 
> 
> You should be able to use the i386 kernel during installation.  You don't
> need all that 64bit goodness to install Linux, and it won't affect how the
> distro works.  
> 
>       -Sean
> 
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> than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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