Re: Documentation and initrd (Re: arcboot and filesystems)

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2004-10-13 21:08]:
> > tbm: If either of the above have been done, or you feel only one is
> > enough, feel free to close either or both bugs. I'm not sure how well
> > arcboot-installer can check for root filesystem type since mips doesn't
> > use partman.
> 
> I don't think it has been documented yet.  We can actually make this a
> more generic item: architectures should define whether they use initrd
> or not.  Then we could add a paragraph to all non-initrd arches saying
> that your root/boot has to be ext2/3.

Well, the filesystems offered by partconf on mips/*-ip22 are ext2
and ext3, which is what arcboot supports, so this problem affects
(WRT mips) only the SWARM.


Thiemo