On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 06:15:41AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > 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. I'm sorry, but I don't believe this is the case. You specifically said you had difficulties with the yaboot installation, and that after rebooting you had to construct your kernel commandline *by hand*, and that commandline did not reference your initrd -- so of course it was not used, whether or not the initrd existed on disk. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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