Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:43:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:00:26PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote:
> > In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is
> > that the case in d-i ?
>
> No, it's not.
>
> > 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.
>
> Most of the modules are available in the d-i environment, although you
> need to run the appropriate "Load installer components from ..." stage
> to get a lot of them. The standard procedure is to run the installer up
> to the point where it starts the partitioner (by which point it still
> hasn't written anything to the disks), then switch to tty2, mount your
> root filesystem on /target, and chroot.
Maybe a installer option that would do just that would be a good idea. This
way we could redo the rescue functionality of the old boot-floppies.
Not sure if it is easily doable technically though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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