Re: root not mountable because of unsupported file system
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:14:46PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> I filed #245012 against the "package" installation-reports since I am
> unable to find what is the right package that should handle this.
The powerpc kernels.
> The problem is that without initrd only some filesystems are available
> for mounting the root device, because they are compiled into the kernel.
>
> I would like to have d-i know what file systems are compiled in this way
> and let the user format the root filesystem using one of those. It might
> be possibile to just warn the user and tell him about the problem.
>
> Yesterday, on powerpc, i did create a root XFS partition and, after the
> first reboot I was unable to mount it with kernel
> kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac :-(
>
> Probably the right way is to require that all kernels used during the
> installation have ext2/3, reiserfs, and XFS built into the kernel.
This is the case on configurations other than powerpc-small. However,
it's the wrong answer. Somebody needs to send a patch to make it use an
initrd; since it uses kernel-package, this shouldn't be difficult.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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