Re: Bug#330445: do_initrd message fails in noninteractive install
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:20:08 +0200, Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> said:
> (CC'ing Manoj as the bug is no longer assigned to his package)
> On Friday 30 September 2005 16:10, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > The same seems to happen about the link in boot and other such
>> > options, which with the new kernels may or not be still uptodate
>> > default choices, at least i heard some comments about this
>> > earlier.
>>
>> I have no idea what you are talking about here. Can you elaborate?
> The default for the link-in-boot option was changed in d-i
> post-sarge for i386. I discovered that this broke lilo installation
> as the default config file expects a vmlinuz link and a link to the
> initrd to be present in boot. (grub does not depend on this.) Thus,
> this comment from Sven is noise. See #329994 for details.
> Manoj,
> If you have suggestions about how to improve boot loader
> configuration in d-i, I'm sure we would welcome them. Please keep in
> mind however that we have to cater for a lot more complex setups
> than was the case for boot-floppies.
Can the kernel postinst tell somehow that we are in an initial
install? Say, by looking at the file system? If so, I believe we can
bypass a number of questions and cautionary remarks, since they are
not relevant in an initial install scenario.
manoj
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