[WBEL-devel] Random AMD64 thoughts

[Milan Keršláger]

On So, kvě 01, 2004 at 10:56:30 -0500, John Morris wrote:
> Been banging away on the new Athlon64 for a while now and have a few 
> thoughts to share.
> 
> The boot disc/CD is i386, which means rescue mode is also 32bit, making it 
> somewhat less than useful.  You have been warned.  :)
> 
> There is no mkbootdisk command on x86_64.  Contemplate this along with the 
> above.

This is good to have an ability to build boot CD (as AMD64 kernel does
not fit on floopy):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111905
http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/milan_kerslager/RHEL-3/SRPMS/mkbootdisk-1.5.1-1.ker.rhel3.src.rpm

Also yum should be newer than is in WBEL3 (to maintain 32 and 64 stuff
correctly).

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