Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > did you run the `Install Operating System kernel and modules' step > in dbootstrap? (before the base install) thats when the kernel is > installed. i just did a potato r3 installation a week ago and did > not have a problem with lack of kernel.
Yeah, I'm almost positive I did (could I have really avoided it?). But, I just had to do another reinstall, and /boot did have the kernel in it. However, I still wasn't able to boot directly, despite the fact that /boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 existed. I think this might be because I made /boot a separate partition (I plan to move to XFS soon), and the default ybin setup thought the kernels would be on my / filesystem? I understand this is a tricky case. > > Ok, well, if there is going to be a potato r4, it would be nice. > > I think running slowly is better than not running (or rather, not > > running usefully) at all... > > we could add it to the yaboot.conf on the CD, but users will have to > do that themselves since there is no yaboot setup on potato. (it > could be kludged in woody, but id rather not, by that time we should > have kernel patches anyway). I think it makes sense to make video=ofonly the default for the CD (assuming there will be a potato r4). And, since (for potato) users already have to frob their /etc/yaboot.conf after installation anyways, so I don't see the disadvantage in adding it to the default append=, possibly with a comment explaining when it's needed.
