Herbert Kaminski wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:24:39 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > >Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >> > 1. booting from CD still needs 'linux root=/dev/rd/0 rw' > >> > at the SILO prompt > >> These options should now be present in the latest version of silo.conf in svn. > > > >... Which is not used on CDs. See the debian-cd CVS repository. > > I do not know what is in svn and where it goes from there. > The silo.conf in the ISO _is_ used when booting the CD. Some > time ago, I modified the ISO image with a hex editor (removed > 'read-only', added ' rw' to the append line, padded the length > difference with newlines). Then I burnt this iso and it booted > fine when I just hit ENTER at the SILO prompt. Someone needs to take responsibility for modifying debian-cd properly, testing it, etc. As things stand now, d-i beta 4 is not going to support sparc CDs, just like beta 3 did not, despite rather massive amounts of posted workarounds from people like you. -- see shy jo
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