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I've started installing on MKDOC on a Dual Opteron ( AMD64 ) server using Debian Testing ( Sarge)

A 64 bit version is available as an unofficial port of Debian. There is a HOW-TO here The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO
and a installer sarge-amd64-netinst.iso CD is available here.

I installed in Expert mode ( I'm not an expert but it asks a few more questions .. ) as it let me select the kernel to be installed.. kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8-smp as its a dual opteron, rather than the generic kernel. I also set the apt-sources to point to sarge rather than sid.

After the install I thought of installing a new kernel, just to try and staty ahead. First wrinkle appears...After

apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8-smp

The post kernel install of creating an initrd failed with an obscure error
cpio: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000002a95556000): No such file or directory which causes a kernel panic "unable to mount root VFS" on boot.

The attached patch in the bug report fixes the bug.. but maybe its time to use a more stable distro ? SuSE 9.2 ?