Re: Bug#640418: Does not use an initrd on mipsel/loongson-2f systems
- To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
- Cc: Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com>, 640418@bugs.debian.org, Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, debian-mips@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#640418: Does not use an initrd on mipsel/loongson-2f systems
- From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:01:16 +0200
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* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [110906 10:10]:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 08:58:16PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> > Even when gNewSense has been able to make grub work, not sure if only
> > for laptops, or mini-pcs included, on debian this is broken for
> > mini-pcs, when trying to load the initrd the machine just goes to
> > limbo. So I'd suggest not to depend upon grub to make decisions about
> > the kernel or initrd...
>
> The situation on mini-PCs should be fixed upstream now, I believe, and
> at some point I'll get round to dropping a new package into
> experimental.
The current trunk grub works on mini-PCs, at least for me (speaking of
both 2f and 2e).
> Sure, you can do it with PMON or in other ways. In the case of d-i,
> though, we'll continue installing and configuring GRUB by default. This
> gives us more flexibility and better harmony across architectures. My
> experience suggests that the more similarly different architectures are
> handled, the better the chance that the less common ones will keep
> working.
Yes, we really should use grub where it is available. This also allows
us to use serial at the mini-PCs.
Andi
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