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Re: Reboot in d-i (Was: Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3)



On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:50:44AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:53:34AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > installations which has only really been tested for i386. The real 
> > downside of using the Etch installer for Sarge is that, although a 
> > current kernel will be used for the installation, it will still install 
> > 2.6.8 for the target system (it does not use any backports).
> > 
> > This means that there is a relatively high chance that the user will 
> > experience problems on the reboot into the target system.
> 
> I never understood why it is necessary to reboot the system after installation.
> I remember that many years ago SuSE (don't know current status) just chrooted
> into the installed system. That's also nice compared to other commercial
> systems which required 10 or more reboots until they were ready (current state
> also unknown).

This does indeed work just nicely, but the idea is to test the kernel &
bootloader install, and it is better to test that early, than at some later
time when you just suffered from a loss of power while away and the system
doesn't boot back.

> It may be useful to test the bootloader and makes it easier to upgrade the
> kernel but is it required?

Not really, it is a technical choice that was made for the above reasons,
nothing else.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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