On Wednesday 06 December 2006 08:30, Sven Luther wrote: > Frans, notice that yaird is still the prefered option for prep > machines, as initramfs-tools still is unable to detect the root > partition per default. Setting yaird as default for a subarch is not trivial and IMHO initramfs-tools is currently much to be preferred over yaird. > Another solution would be to set the ROOT= variable in > /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf (or whatever the conf file is > named), to make sure the ramdisk knows about the ROOT to boot from. > > This would have to be done after initramfs-tools is installed, but > before the kernel is installed (or at least configured), so inside > base-installer. If you can create a file /target/etc/mkinitramfs/conf.d/preproot or similar instead, this looks trivial. base-installer already does similar things starting from line 735. Creating and testing a patch should be fairly trivial. Cheers, FJP
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