On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:47:28AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:17:24PM +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 07:28:16AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Does debian-installer require devfs=mount is a boot param still? We have > > > a fix to make the sparc/sparc64 kernel images default with this command > > > line for netbooting (IOW, when SILO is not used to load the kernel), > > > but if it isn't needed, then we should leave well enough alone. > > > > it's not needed for netboot image for sparc64. > > > > I don't know for sparc32 but I think it's the same. > > > > /dev/console is in initrd so even if devfs=mount is not here, it doesn't > > crash anymore. > > That would fix sparc32 aswell. Does anything else in the > debian-installer need devfs mounted though?
debian-installer completely relies on devfs at the moment, unconditionally. For instance, many components walk /dev/discs. > If it does, would the init script be able to detect that and mount it > on boot? Yes. i386 doesn't need devfs=mount any more, for instance. Somebody should still test that removing it works for sparc, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
