Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:50:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, so what ? I mean, the netinst on powerpc is around 240MB or so, no, what
> > is 8MB more or less ?
>
> One could file a bug report about that, since it means that the powerpc
> netinst CD is not able to fit on the mini-cd media that netinst CDs are
> designed for, which IIRC max out somewhere under 200 mb.
Well, this has been the case for as long as i can remember working on d-i, no ?
> > Yeah, so, we don't offer the user choice of grub or lilo right now ?
>
> We do so only because there is no one choice that will work in all
> situations. And we automtically detect most of the situations where one
> won't work and use the other. And this already makes it twice as hard to
> fully test the i386 installer; adding two choices for initrd generation
> would make it four times as hard.
not so, since the ramdisk generation choice is independent of the bootloader
choice, and the testing is one needed anyway. but well, you know better about
this than us, i think.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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