Re: Question regarding kernel policy: Why ext2 as module?]
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:48:57PM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 18:34, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:15:56AM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> > > As an aftertought: Im asking this because I am after a method that will
> > > work for *all* kernels in Debian not just 2.6.6. Rather than trying them
> > > all out I was hoping you could tell me.
> > >
> > AFAIK debian 2.4 has not initramfs support.
> >
> Right. Thanks for letting me know.
>
> I've done more testing and it looks like 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 are fine but
> prior 2.6 kernels are not. I presume they don't have the patch applied
> that fixes the root parameter issue (cf. the message link I gave
> earlier). Will this be fixed you think or will older 2.6 kernels maybe
> be pulled from the archive prior to the Sarge release?
>
We will release probable 2.6.7 only if every arch will be ok with that.
> As a side note, thanks to your help, there are now MondoRescue packages
> for the first time that will work off stock Debian kernels. (Not in
> Debian yet but at the URL I gave in my first posting.)
>
Nice to know, mondo-mindi had problems of licensing, due to bin-only
packages for the rescue system. Do those package manage things
correctly?
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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