Bug#253789: netwinder tc1 success
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:05:21AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Everything went swimmingly. When I rebooted to finish the install, I had
> to manually set the kernfile variable to /vmlinuz-2.4.25-netwinder. A
> better solution would be for the installer to detect that it's installing
> to a seperate /boot partition and to add a /boot/vmlinuz symlink instead of
> an /vmlinuz one.
If this applies to arm in general, then we could do this:
Index: rootskel/debian/templates-arch
===================================================================
--- rootskel/debian/templates-arch (revision 16700)
+++ rootskel/debian/templates-arch (working copy)
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
Default[sparc]: true
Default[hppa]: true
Default[powerpc]: true
+Default[arm]: true
Description: kernel needs a link in /boot/ (linux only)
Setting this to true makes base-installer include 'link_in_boot=yes'
in /etc/kernel-img.conf.
If not, it'll be more complicated.
> As well, when I finished the base install (opting out of using tasksel or
> dselect), I was unable to install ssh. It installed to the point where it
> tried to generate keys, and then died with Illegal instruction. I suspect
> this is a hardware problem with my netwinder, however.
No, this has been reported elsewhere; I believe it's currently
considered to be either a toolchain bug or a bug with libssl using
incorrect optimizations, but I don't know the details.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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