Bug#336514: yaird: falls down when new scsi/sata disks are added
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:48:44PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:45:54PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> > Interesting to experiment with, but not a quick fix for today.
>
> Sure. I'd just like to point out that, today, there is no way to add a
> drive to a configuration like mine, while using yaird, that is not
> extremely painful, manual, and awkward. Even if I had known that yaird
> would be such a problem before I did it, there's no obvious way to
> generate a new initrd for any configuration other than my current one.
The plan for this is to modify the d-i rescue mode to be able to regenerate
the yaird initrd (BTW, Jonas, maybe you could already add a yaird .udeb for
that), so you add your disk, boot into the d-i rescue mode, the ramdisk gets
regenerated, and all works fine.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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