Bug#245012: installation-reports: d-i permit to create file systems not mountable when rebooted
Il gio, 2004-04-22 alle 04:25, Steve Langasek ha scritto:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:00:10AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > Il mer, 2004-04-21 alle 23:08, Per Olofsson ha scritto:
> > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 22:34 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > > > I just found that initrd exists also for powerpc, but I think that no
> > > > debian package provides and initrd kernel for powerpc.
>
> > > I think the kernel packages provide the initrd as well. That's what
> > > they do on i386, at least.
[...]
> Er, kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac depends on
> kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc, which contains all of these modules; and
> the initrd is not included in the kernel package in any case -- it's
> built at package install time. It would be inordinately silly to go to
> all the trouble of shipping a kernel that's built for initrd support,
> and then only ship a static initrd with fixed contents!
You might be right: I don't know how the initrd is built, but that
kernel (and all powerpc kernels) does not create the initrd image.
Maybe the installation procedure is to be changed and the initrd
created, since actually the result is that I cannot mount the root XFS
file system.
Bye,
Giuseppe
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