Bug#355851: a blindunfriendly debian installer problem

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Frans Pop, le Tue 28 Mar 2006 23:20:49 +0200, a écrit :
> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 22:08, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > « I don't think that's a good idea. It requires that /proc be already
> > mounted. If we don't also mount /proc then we can't mount usbfs in the
> > standard palce, and, as a result, brltty still can't see USB devices.
> > If we do mount /proc then system boot scripts are subsequently at risk
> > of failing. »
> >
> > Note: brltty needs to be started as soon as possible.
> 
> Before init is run?

Mmm, not that early here (but in other cases this is done).

> That is where proc is mounted by d-i, right at the very beginning of
> the boot sequence.

In debian installer, yes, but the brltty should be the same when booting
the real distribution, in which case which we would like to have brltty
started possibly before even the root partition fsck, hence before /proc
is mounted.

Regards,
Samuel