Re: debian-installer on ppc64
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:22:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much
> > deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel.
> > It doesnt look like there are too many places that care. The initrd had
> > an empty /dev, thats easily fixed. It looks like the stuff that parses
> > /proc/partitions expects devfs style names but I havent looked into the
> > code yet.
>
> Past discussion about these issues suggest that devfs is indeed needed,
> but will not be enabled by default if you don't pass the devfs=mount or
> something such command. My personal experience on this subject doesn't
> seem to support this theory, at least for 2.6 kernels.
?? devfs is marked deprecated in 2.6. And the devfs names in
/proc/partitions thing is a 2.4 bug when devfs is enabled.
/proc/partitions shouldn't show device names at all, just unique
identifiers for devices. That's what it has always done, except for
Linux 2.4 with devfs enabled.
> Same as above, d-i doesn't support subarches yet. That said, parted
> should be available, and normally you should be able to use partitioner
> and/or autopartkit transparently. What partitioning scheme are your box
> using ?
>
> > 4. shm is not a valid filesystem in 2.6. Changing /sbin/init to use
> > tmpfs fixed this.
>
> Mmm, no idea about this one, maybe a special 2.6 kernel support for d-i
> would be nice to have, a bit like woody's boot-floppies supported 2.2
> and 2.4 kernels ?
shm is just an alias to tmpfs on 2.4 kernel. You should always use the
tmpfs name.
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