On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:12:17AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 08:30, Sven Luther wrote: > > Frans, notice that yaird is still the prefered option for prep > > machines, as initramfs-tools still is unable to detect the root > > partition per default. > > Setting yaird as default for a subarch is not trivial and IMHO > initramfs-tools is currently much to be preferred over yaird. > > > Another solution would be to set the ROOT= variable in > > /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf (or whatever the conf file is > > named), to make sure the ramdisk knows about the ROOT to boot from. > > > > This would have to be done after initramfs-tools is installed, but > > before the kernel is installed (or at least configured), so inside > > base-installer. > > If you can create a file /target/etc/mkinitramfs/conf.d/preproot or
It would be trivial, it would just have a single line which is ROOT=... And the root partition can be grabbed from debconf already. I guess i can grab code from nobootloader for that. Will do this, not sure if i have time before the WE, but i will try this. > similar instead, this looks trivial. Yep. > base-installer already does similar things starting from line 735. > Creating and testing a patch should be fairly trivial. Cool. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
