Re: Considerations for lilo removal

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:03:10AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> I don't really see this as a bug, certainly not as grave. The problem
>> seems to be that lilo simply can't handle large images and the default
>> ramdisk just has now hit that limit on amd64. 
>
> So it's broken on amd64 for the stock Debian kernel, AIUI.
>
> Looks like a grave bug to me.

With the default initramfs-tools.conf. So initramfs-tools has the
grave bug. :) It should not be using "MODULES=most" on amd64 or reduce
the list of modules. Certainly the floppy module does not have to be
in the initrd.

> Michael

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        Goswin