Bug#240760: Bootloader

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:03:12PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Something I forgot to mention.  Currently, no boot loader is
> installed.  What I'd ideally like to see is a program which detects
> whether the Netwinder or CATS firmware is present, and then sets
> various values in the firmware after asking the user if that's okay.
> (At least, we should display one page telling the user how to set the
> firmware and boot the system; but ideally, we would set it for them.)

Notice that the nobootloader package does this partially, that is it
informs the user what the root partition is.

Ideally, we would have a per arch/subarch switch there, and give more
precise information if possible. Like for powerpc/chrp/pegasos, we have
to type in the OF : 

  boot ide:0 vmlinuz-2.4.25-powerpc root=/dev/hda3

If /boot is mounted as first partition of the first IDE drive, and root
is on partition 3 of the same.

This would be usefull and easy enough to go, so feel free to add the
needed info for arm hardware in there, until you can set it directly. 

Maybe we can then spawn another binary package from nobootloader, which
would then set those firmware values or something.

Friendly,

Sven Luther