Am 2004-09-08 13:00:26, schrieb Alex Owen:
> In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is
> that the case in d-i ?
Right
> I seem to remember d-i asking me which kernel to install so I suspect this
> means that the d-i kernel is not installed on the target system.
Sometimes right... :-/
> If the d-i kernel ins not installed on the target system then I think that
> the d-i boot floppy cannot have the "rescue" boot option that bf had as
> there will be no matching kernel modules in the root filesystem.
This is right...
> The d-i can still be used as a rescue system by booting into expert mode
> and then dropping to a shell to mount and fix your damaged system. Perhaps
> a rescue mode could be added to d-i which loads up the ramdisk prompts
> for language and keyboard info then drops to a root shell. This would be a
> different kind of rescue mode to the old bf rescue mode.
Why not use '/usr/sbin/mkrescue' ?
> If I have got this wrong and we just need to add a rescue stanza to
> syslinux.cfg (and simmilar for other arches) then do let me know and I'll
> try to prepare a patch some time next week.
>
> Alex Owen
Greetings
Michelle
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