Re: versatile architecture image suitable for qemu usage?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

At Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:46:06 +0900,
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> At Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:36:27 +0200,
> Riku Voipio wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:35:22PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > I tried to test qemubuilder armel support and realized that I don't
> > > have the latest kernel.
> > 
> > > initrd isn't distributed inside a package, and I don't think there's a 
> > > kernel which doesn't work without a initrd.
> > 
> > > Is there a kernel which contains minimal support for ext2/3 and/or
> > > initrd which contains them ? (and supports parsing init= kernel
> > > command-line option).
> > 
> > I think it's better to make qemubuilder support booting with initrd.
> > Then you can extend support from just armel/versatile to any arch/kernel
> > provided by debian (and, of course, supported by qemu).
> > 
> 
> qemubuilder already supports booting with initrd.  If I could find an
> initrd which works properly.

If there is a initrd which can be used without host, that would be
great. Or if it was provided inside a package.

initrd.gz provided for d-i doesn't work, because it doesn't have a
reasonable support for init=XXXX option (I'd like initrd to mount /
and run the specified init command instead of booting into
debian-installer).


regards,
	junichi
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