d-i, woody, cobalt WAS: kernel-installer mkinitrd DELAY hack
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:12:06AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Joey Hess]
> > Can anyone explain why the ugly hack in kernel-installer to modify DELAY
> > in initrd-tools is there? Has the bug it works around since been fixed
> > in initrd-tools? I have a zero delay in my mkinitrd.conf by default.
>
> I believe I did the change, after reading about the problem somewhere.
> A quick googling sent me to
> <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200205/msg00002.html>
> which might have been the original email.
>
> I believe the default in woody is DELAY=5, and that is not too good.
> As you probably know, I use d-i to install woody, and have added the
> d-i features required to get it to work properly with woody.
>
Is that cobalt guy still here?
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