Re: Warning: unable to open an initial console. During install.

[Kyle McMartin <kyle@there.is.no.cabal.ca>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:31:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> This issue has been identified a long time ago and is listed as an errata.
> The error is somewhere in the bootloader configuration on the images.
> As the error seems specific to certain types of machines, we (the general 
> d-i developers) need help from you (developers involved with the hppa 
> port) to identify exactly what is missing in the bootloader config and 
> which images are affected.
> After that, changing the configs for 3.1r1 should be relatively easy.
>

Ok, sounds good.
 
> > or drop some drivers from the install media. For the sake of low memory
> > systems, I'd suggest the latter, I can help coordinate picking which
> > drivers go in.] 
> 
> It is not possible to change which drivers are compiled in and which are 
> compiled as modules: d-i uses the same kernel config as the general 
> kernel and therefore is frozen for stable.
> It should be possible to change which modules are included in udebs and 
> that could make a (probably minor) difference in the size of the ramdisk.
> 

Yeah, I meant removing things from the udebs, not from the kernel.

I'm pulling the branches/d-i/sarge stuff now, and will follow up with
a patch or suggestions.

Cheers,
-- 
Kyle McMartin