-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 May 2004 03:52, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: > Reading > "installer/doc/manual/en/partitioning/partition/hppa.xml" I found this: > > "This is where the boot loader and an optional kernel > and RAMdisk will be stored, so make it big enough for that -- at least > 4Mb (I like 8-16Mb). An additional requirement of the firmware is that > the Linux kernel must reside within the first 2GB of the disk. This > is typically achieved by making the root ext2 partition fit entirely > within the first 2GB of the disk. Alternatively you can create a small > ext2 partition near the start of the disk and mount that on..." > > Really this needs to be an ext2 partition? Isn't an anachronism > about when the debian kernels didn't use initrd to load the driver > of the filesystem, required to mount the root filesystem?
I have created a bug report against the debian-installer-manual package (see #248261). Thanks for reporting this. FJP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAny3sgm/Kwh6ICoQRApnSAJ48wkb1Me1GaFnygqKq46zZEyIVAQCfScFL CpizvptwfN/Lz3yl4Ar4zao= =Cm6+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
