Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > This parameter should not be necessary with images built using current > > > cvs. > > > > This is a pure netboot d-i, which consists of a kernel and the initrd > > builtin. > > > > The powerpc kernel don't automount devfs by default, as the final system > > will run those also, but not use devfs. > > > > So, if you have any hint how to create a kernel with built-in initrd, > > and being able to set additional kernel options, i would indeed be very > > interested in this. > > I changed build/Makefile to always include /dev/console on the initrd; And I fixed the resulting breakage. :-) (The _build target depends on tree_umount, which tested for /dev/console to decide if /dev was mounted, and called "sudo umount" then) > this lets the kernel run init, which mounts devfs. So AFAIK devfs=mount > is unneeded. At least when building on mips uning fakeroot, the result is a _regular_ file instead of a device file. So it fails with a kernel panic. Thiemo
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