reassign 707844 debian-installer tags 70784 wontfix thanks Quoting Salvo Tomaselli (tipos...@tiscali.it): > Package: di-utils > Version: 1.92+deb7u1 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > I've downloaded Debian 7.0 to use in a virtual machine. > > I downloaded an amd64 image, and by mistake used qemu for i386. > > I had the normal grub and then when selecting whether I wanted graphical > or normal installation, it would just hang and do nothing. > When trying to do an "expert install" it finally showed me what was > going on, and I could start qemu with the appropriate command line. > > Could you make it print an error message in these cases, for any kind > of chosen kind of installation? > If a CD doesn't do anything but just hangs I could assume there is > something wrong with it, or the problem lies somewhere else.
That happened to me sometimes also, indeed. Well, it's a chicken and egg problem. To print something, you need a minimal system able to print something (and make the minimal checks about host architecture). So you need a kernel....but this is precisely the kernel that hangs when you boot an amd64 kernel on a non 64-bit machine. The fact that it "hangs" silently is because by default the kernel is booted with the "quiet" option so that very verbose boot messages are silented out. This is a design choice (and this is why you get these messages when booting in expert mode). I don't think we can do more than we're already doing.
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