Re: New Sarge Net Installer and Grub
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:34:42AM -0700, Jeff Coppock wrote:
> I've been experimenting with the new NetInst CD in VMWare, since I
> don't have a scratch system. The installer defaults to Grub for a boot
> loader and also defaults to installing into MBR. The setup also uses an
> initrd kernel.
>
> This all fine and good, but I've been trying to compile a non-initrd
> kernel (2.4.25 and 2.4.26), but they won't boot. I've resorted to
> building initrd kernels and I had trouble with those until I learned
> that there is a patch for the kernel.org sources for cramfs, which is
> included in the Debian kernel source packages.
>
> I've been using non-initrd kernels for a long time and just want to
> understand why one won't boot in this new environment. Does anyone know
> what the issue might be with this?
>
I don't think the boot problems you are running into are due to
initrd. I am using a non-initrd kernel (2.4.25 and 2.4.26) on a system
installed with the new installer with no troubles.
Are you sure you compiled the root file system into the kernel and not
as a module? anything else that you may need at boot that is compiled
as a module?
> Also, why is the bootloader default changing from Lilo to Grub?
>
No idea. The developers liked it, its supposed to be the next thing ... ;-)
The only thing better I see about it is that you don't need to
reinstall it when you make changes to the entrees, other then that it
looks more complicated to me.
> thanks,
> jc
>
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