RE: new installer
Well my intentions were to tell the bootloader to wait until it has all of
it into memory. However this may cause a requirement of 8mb <
If the bootloader can't support putting it all into memory first, then Ill
hack into it till it does. But this seemed like a working solution. The
bootloader doesn't need to know how to deal with cds. The kernel should
have iso9660 support in it so that should be the solution.
Dan Weber
-----Original Message-----
From: simon raven [mailto:simon@nuit.ca]
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 9:05 PM
To: Dan Weber
Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: new installer
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 20:29:22 -0400, Dan Weber a écrit:
> Ok thanks. That was useful. With no possible way of kickstarting a
> cd can be a bad thing. What about an ultra stripped kernel for 2.4 or
> 2.6 that fits on a boot floppy. Then having it search for other boot
> disks and then we can have the modules loaded how debian-installer
> currently has it so you have support for all the nic drivers etc you
> could need. I do think that if possible, starting up the machine with
> the ultra stripped kernel that has multi fs support, could allow you
> to have it read from cdrom (/dev/hdc for
> ex.) using iso9660 format and grabbing the initrd from another disk only
> making it two bootdisks. So a command line example would be.
i understand the modular aspect, but i don't see how that would work (i
don't know much about how the boot sequence actually works in the new
installer, and what the mechanics are for the installer module loading is (i
read up on it a long time ago, and i've forgotten most of it, and it has
probably changed since)).
how do you tell the kernel to stop and ask for a new floppy? it'll panic
from not having the initrd loaded, AFAICT. unless you have the initrd in the
ramdisk itself. but that comes later, and it would still panic anyway.
> Boot: kernel root=/dev/hdc initrd=/dev/fd0
>
> That would force it to load the kernel then ask for the other disk
> with initrd to get the thing running. Issues with initrd is size. Im
> concerned you won't be able to fit an initrd on a 1.44 mb floppy which
> would cause issues. However if we get it to fit on cd, this plan will
> work great.
i don't think so. from my info, you can't boot linux on oldworlds from CD
(although i still don't know why you couldn't with a lot of good hacking and
research). the ideas seems tempting though. it could work (now that i
understand what you mean ;).
> Dan Weber
(i'll be subbing to the list shortly)
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