Frans Pop wrote: > Both initrd generators have limitations in what they currently support. We > may have to either always install both, or include logic that > pre-installs one or the other depending on the situation. Based on http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions I didn't see any items that were only supported by one or the other that seemed immediatly relevant to d-i. Did I miss some? IMHO, and based on similar experience with lilo/grub, making d-i fully support two alternate programs for doing something has strong negative effects on complexity, maintainability, and usability. It fragements developer time and makes us have to deal with a much more complex system. So I'd really like to see d-i only support one of the two tools by default, and if neither is able to support all the things supported by initrd-tools that would be a significant reversion that should be fixed. This is orthagonal to the kernel packaging supporting use of either tool outside d-i, which looks to be at the same time both generally useful and a nice way to have postponed making a decision. > Currently we modify the configuration of initrd-tools: > - temporary hardcoding of root partition > - default resume partition > Would we need to do the same for the new initrd generators? I wish my memory was better; I briefly removed the roor partition hardcoding a few weeks ago, watched initrd-tools break some way, and put it back, but I forget how they broke. Anyway, if the new tools don't break right away, whatever the issue is that I'm forgetting doesn't apply and root partition hardcoding isn't needed. > The dependency on sysfs and udev will make it practically impossible to > install a 2.6 kernel when running the installer with 2.4. We should > probably check for this in base-installer and make sure the option is not > presented to the user. BTW, is there an a upgrade path for users of sarge with the 2.4 kernel to upgrade directly to etch with 2.6? It seems to fail due to that requirement. -- see shy jo
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