Bug#297553: boot-floppy: No support for custom kernels
Package: boot-floppy
Severity: wishlist
Installing sarge from the net-install floppies I noticed it
seemed impossible to choose a custom build kernel in the stage
mentioned in 6.3.3.1 of
http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch06s03.html.en
It says:
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As part of the installation, a Linux kernel will be installed. At the
default priority, the installer will choose one for you that best
matches your hardware. In lower priority modes, you will be able to
choose from a list of available kernels.
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I had ofcourse chosen an expert install, since I'm doing this for
fun. But I couldn't find a way (not even by opening a rescue terminal
and editting the target/etc/apt/sources.list) to contain the source of
my home-grown-kernel.deb...
I think this can't be right and the function of 'officially' editting
the sources.list should be inserted _before_ the picking of a
boot-kernel. It would have saved me some work since the default kernel
has a lot of dependencies and sets up some configurations which my
kernel has not, or even conflicts with (such as a /etc/lilo.conf telling
the system to use an initial RAM disk).
I'm also wondering what happend to the rescue command that used to be
available on the Woody installation. Why is it removed?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers sarge
APT policy: (500, 'sarge')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.19-a45
Locale: LANG=nl_NL@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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