Thank you Alex for this Bugreport, I am so busy with customer projects using bootcd and lenny that I did not check the actual squeeze for a while. I have now downloaded http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso and have installed a Virtual machine with it. After installing bootcd, bootcd-i386 and bootcd-mkinitramfs I tried bootcdwrite and got the following Warning: --- WARNING --- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y seems not to be configured in /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686 To run bootcd some features have to be compiled in the kernel. Please read the FAQ and check if all necessary features are enabled. --- (e)xit (i)gnore ---
You should have seen this warning too. Haven't you ? This means the standard kernel now has the ramdisk configured only as module. First of all I wanted to make sure that it would run, when I recompile the kernel with ramdisk. I installed linux-source-2.6.32 used the standard config /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686 and just changed CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y recompiled and tried again. It bootet, but I could not login. A first workaround was to add the lines /dev.ro/console /ram1/dev/tty1 /ram1/dev/tty2 and /ram1/dev/tty2 in /etc/securetty. This is only a first short hint, how you could use bootcd now with squeeze when you need it now. I will try to figure out how to use a kernel with ramdisk as module and then try to fix bootcd hopefully next week. Bernd
