Hi Ben, On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:11:51AM -0600, Ben Staffin wrote: > I just successfully installed using d-i RC2 on my DP264 system. I had > almost no trouble, except that the installer did not seem to set the > default boot device in SRM. I had to set bootdef_dev by hand before the > system would boot. Yeah, someone would need to cook up a scheme that lets us map Linux device names to SRM device names, which is tricky and error-prone... > Also, I installed with XFS / and EXT2 /boot. This works, except that > kernel updates have to be done by hand since aboot cannot read symlinks > from the XFS / filesystem. I suppose this should be filed as a bug > against aboot(?) but I'm not sure if it's readily fixable. Against aboot-installer. > The solution that I see would be to just move /vmlinuz and > /vmlinuz.old (and the associated initrd.img symlinks) into /boot. Yes, by no means will aboot ever be able to use cross-fs symlinks. > Anyway, I've never touched an Alpha system before tonight, and d-i > worked for me on the first try. I am glad I made the assumption that > /boot should be left as ext2, though. Great to hear! FWIW, d-i would have complained anyway if you hadn't given it an ext2 /boot. :) > Various config tidbits (no idea if you care about these, feel free to ignore): Is there any chance you'd be willing to file an installation report on this hardware, so we have a permanent record of your hardware in the BTS? http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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