Re: d-i floppy image?
> creating devices.
>
> orion:tree$ ls dev
> console hda hdc kmem null ram0 tty1 tty3
> fd0 hdb hdd mem ram tty0 tty2 tty4
>
> obviously /dev/initrd is missing.
might want to add /dev/tty too.
>
> In this floppy image build I used a modutils udeb which was the only local
> package. I'd assumed that all devices were sanely there for the init to boot.
I've been using altered makefiles for a while trying to make the dev stuff
cleaner. So I don't know how well the checked in stuff actually works. Joey and
Erik discussed some modifications to the boot process yesterday. Making that
plan work is probably the best use of resources.
>
> Is this the only missing thing or are there others to take care for
> a successful boot from floppy? I must have this because otherwise
> I can't develop/test partitioning stuff.
>
I'm not completely sure what is going on but it isn't entirely true that you
need a bootable floppy to test. You can test in a chroot, do a 'make demo' in
build/. In some ways less conviennent, in some ways more, because you don't
have to wait for the floppy to load.
David
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