Re: 2.4 kernels
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:17:24PM +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 07:28:16AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> >
> > Does debian-installer require devfs=mount is a boot param still? We have
> > a fix to make the sparc/sparc64 kernel images default with this command
> > line for netbooting (IOW, when SILO is not used to load the kernel),
> > but if it isn't needed, then we should leave well enough alone.
>
> it's not needed for netboot image for sparc64.
>
> I don't know for sparc32 but I think it's the same.
>
> /dev/console is in initrd so even if devfs=mount is not here, it doesn't
> crash anymore.
That would fix sparc32 aswell. Does anything else in the
debian-installer need devfs mounted though? If it does, would the init
script be able to detect that and mount it on boot?
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