Description of problem: Both RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Advanced Server and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Workstation for x86_64 CDs contain an images/pxeboot/initrd.img that is for the ia32e architecture (should be the x86_64 architecture). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Advanced Server (Taroon Update 3) RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Workstation (Taroon Update 3) How reproducible: Extract the files in the initrd.img. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to https://listman.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2002-June/msg00001.html for instructions on how to extract files from the initrd.img file. Actual results: The file etc/arch is ia32e and the modules.cgz file (when extracted) has a ia32e directory structure. Expected results: The file etc/arch hould be x86_64 and the modules.cgz file (when extracted) should have a x86_86 directory structure. Additional info: Changing the etc/arch and the modules.cgz file to x86_64 allowed a pxe installation of both operating systems - provided that the ext2 filesystem was used for all partitions (instead of ext3). I hope that ext3 will work with the correct initrd.
Changing component to anaconda and reassigning to the owner of anaconda.
This is intentional. The ia32e kernel will run on amd64 systems while the x86_64 kernel won't run on both.