[email protected], le Wed 23 Dec 2009 17:18:14 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06:05AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > I'm having a look at things that we're still missing for the Debian > > installer. > [...] > > At least one thing that we don't have is initrd support. Is there > > anybody who has already thought/done anything for that? > > Is it feasible to modify the installer not to require an initrd?... > > It's rather pointless, as long as all drivers are compiled into the > kernel.
The installer doesn't use the initrd for drivers. It uses it to ship the / filesystem containing the installer without having to divine the /dev entry where the Linux kernel will be able to find the CD-ROM/USB-key, or automatically setup networking to get /. > > Or maybe use serverboot? > > Wasn't the whole point of creating GRUB, to make serverboot obsolete?... > :-) I think so yes, but well :) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
