Bug#221534: debian-installer: FTBFS mips (in a good way)
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:26:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:49:37PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:27:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> writes:
[snip]
> > As we have no bootloader capable of pre-loading the ramdisk, the ramdisk
> > must be compiled in statically, which is currently done manually and with
> > patched sources.
>
> How do you solve this ? I have myself, when creating the kernel package,
> extracted all the part of the kernel build tree needed to embed the
> initrd in the kernel and put it in a separate
> (kernel-build-<kver>-<flavour>) package.
>
> Would this work for you also, or would it be problematic ?
That might be an option, although I would like to avoid handling it
that way. Thiemo has started writing a tool capable of adding a
ramdisk to a "normal" kernel image. It does not yet fully work, but
it looks quite good already and I hope that we will have it fully
working within the next weeks.
Regards,
Karsten
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