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