[Petter Reinholdtsen] > The base-installer in cvs chooses kernel image using the > debian-installer/kernel/image template from rootskel. I'm woundering > how I am supposed to set up my install CD to use another kernel. > Could anyone explain how this is supposed to adapt? One do not want > to install the same kernel version when installing woody, sarge and > sid. > > There used to be some code in base-installer to choose kernel based in > distribution and architecture. Now the code in rootskel only chooses > based in architekture (and is missing a defaul value, I suggest the > virtual package kernel-image. See patch). The kernel choosing logic > should be able to pick the best kernel available. Any ideas on how to > do this?
I got no reply, but have been thinking about the problem. Now that base-installer and kernel-installer is two different packages, there is a simple solution to this problem. We make a new udeb, kernel-chooser, depending on rootskel and the packages setting mirror/distribution, and set kernel-installer to depend on kernel-chooser. This now package kernel-chooser will look at the current architecture, distribution and possibly /proc/cpuinfo, and choose the best kernel among the packages implementing the virtual package kernel-image. The name of the kernel is stored into debian-installer/kernel/image and the correct package is installed by kernel-installer. Any objections? > On a side note, I believe we should change the default install kernel > on i386 to 2.4.20. Any objections? I did this, and it seem to work just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
