Re: 2.4 kernels
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:47:28AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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?
debian-installer completely relies on devfs at the moment,
unconditionally. For instance, many components walk /dev/discs.
> If it does, would the init script be able to detect that and mount it
> on boot?
Yes. i386 doesn't need devfs=mount any more, for instance. Somebody
should still test that removing it works for sparc, though.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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