Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:00:26PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote:
> In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is
> that the case in d-i ?
No, it's not.
> If the d-i kernel ins not installed on the target system then I think that
> the d-i boot floppy cannot have the "rescue" boot option that bf had as
> there will be no matching kernel modules in the root filesystem.
Most of the modules are available in the d-i environment, although you
need to run the appropriate "Load installer components from ..." stage
to get a lot of them. The standard procedure is to run the installer up
to the point where it starts the partitioner (by which point it still
hasn't written anything to the disks), then switch to tty2, mount your
root filesystem on /target, and chroot.
Automating this would, I think, be essentially a preseeding exercise,
perhaps with the aid of an additional udeb.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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