amd64/136161: sysinstall installs wrong architecture

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR bin/136161; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Cc: Yuriy Glukhov <yuriy.glukhov at gmail.com>,
 freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/136161: sysinstall installs wrong architecture
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:40:33 -0400

 On Monday 29 June 2009 10:42:22 am Yuriy Glukhov wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         136161
 > >Category:       amd64
 > >Synopsis:       sysinstall installs wrong architecture
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 29 14:50:00 UTC 2009
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Yuriy Glukhov
 > >Release:        7.2
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD test.localdomain 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May  1 
 07:18:07 UTC 2009     
 root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 > >Description:
 > 1. Install an amd64 distribution on a USB pen drive.
 > 2. Install the pen drive to a Xeon server.
 > 3. Boot from the pen drive.
 > 4. Run sysinstall, and install (standard installation) the OS to the local 
 HDD, using one of FreeBSD FTPs.
 > 5. Remove the pen drive and boot from the HDD with newly installed system.
 > 6. Observe the uname -a.
 > 
 > Actual result: the architecture is i386.
 > Expected result: the architecture should be amd64.
 
 Are you sure you had amd64 on the pen drive (verified with uname -a).  The 
 arch to install is hard-coded into the sysinstall binary at build time such 
 that an amd64 sysinstall can only install an amd64 release.
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin