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Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues



Frans Pop wrote:
> - We do however assume we can keep on using the oldfashioned initrd
>   support for booting d-i, so it would be nice if you were not too quick
>   in disabling/modularizing needed filesystem support in kernel configs
>   for 2.6.13.
>   We do intend to switch to initrdfs for d-i itself in the long run as it
>   appears to offer more flexibility (loading multiple cpio archives to
>   "extend" a basic initial initrd). However, that will be a fairly major
>   project. IIRC Jeff Bailey has some thoughts on that.

It's not really very hard to get d-i to boot from an initramfs. All the
support for it is there, except you run into bug #317062 at the end of the
install.

-- 
see shy jo

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