On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 11:38 +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Ian Campbell <[email protected]> [2013-11-01 20:19]: > > IIRC the main reason is that the factory shipped u-boot can only speak > > FAT which isn't really suitable for mounting as /boot (lack of POSIXy > > features like symlinks, for e.g. the vmlinuz link, I think was the main > > issue). > > But since the Dreamplug has a serial adapter, I think it's ok to > require an u-boot upgrade before installing Debian.
Agreed, although my rationale would be the presence of JTAG not serial. I don't know if that is the case for all similar platforms though. > > On most platforms flash-kernel generally prefers to mount the device > > dynamically, for those sorts of reasons. At least that's how I remember > > one of the f-k folks explaining it to me. > > No, that's not very common at all (although I see there are two other > devices now that do this). The most common way is either to write > directly to flash (for machines that boot from flash), Right, I was trying to say "most common among devices which do not have a dedicated flash partition for the kernel" or something like that. > or to put the > files under /boot, under the assumption that /boot is where the device > boots from (and d-i has checks to make sure this is the case, although > d-i cannot check for everything). But I see that even what I was trying to say was wrong. My mistake. > Looking at #667681, I see that your original patch put the files in > /boot but Loïc suggested otherwise. I don't agree with Loïc's > rationale but I guess I'm 1.5 years late... > > If people think it's too late to change the behaviour now, I think it > would be good to at least add a simple message like > Creating boot files on /dev/sdaX > to make it cleaer what's going on. We can't really change Wheezy but I'd have no problem with doing it differently for Jessie+, assuming the upgrade path can be sorted out. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
