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 -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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