We've had several suggestions to combine the palo partition and the boot partition on HPPA. The first thing that was needed for that is support in partman-palo to format the partition as ext2 or ext3 while reserving some area for the palo boot information. I have created a patch that does that. It needs some finishing touches, but the basic functionality is there. I next looked into installing palo on that partition, but that is where things become problematic. The normal order in D-I is: - create, format and mount partitions - install base system - install kernel - install bootloader I can now do the first 3 steps with /boot mounted on the palo partition. At step 4 I run into a problem: - it is not possible to run palo on a mounted partition - if I unmount it and run it without '--format-as=2', the existing ext2 file system is lost - if I unmount it and run it with '--format-as=2', the partition is formatted again and existing data is lost too It appears that the -U option was intended for this use case, but that has been disabled and looks to be abandoned. A work around where the kernel etc. are only copied to /boot after running palo seems too much of a hack to me and would still leave users in a spot if they'd ever want/need to rerun palo. Comments/suggestions welcome. Cheers, FJP
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