Re: Fwd: Debian installer: partman-prep
Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 14:24 schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> > I've prepared a partman-prep package which should add support for PPC
> > PReP boot partitions to the installer. The package has been forked from
> > partman-palo. Now, short before testing, I'm wondering about the
> > mechanism which takes care about loading this module.
> >
> > I've grep'ed through the complete installer source, but got stuck in
> > the partman code. So - what do I have to do, that the partman-prep udeb
> > gets loaded on installation time?
>
> Same as partman-newworld: Priority: standard is enough to have it
> installed automatically. Make sure to use proper Architecture: and
> XB-Subarchitecture: fields to make sure it's not installed where it's
> inappropriate, and if necessary an isinstallable file in the control
> area.
Ah - thanks for your answer. I didn't set the XB-Subarchitecture field,
because it wasn't set in the control file. In case of the newworld example,
I can't find where powermac_newworld comes from. What to do if I only
want to have this loaded when using the pseries flavor added by me in
the linux-kernel-di-powerpc's kernel-versions file?
--
While looking for the way to set the correct subarch, I found that in
base-installer's postinst, line 438 the CPU variable is filled by:
CPU=`grep '^cpu[[:space:]]*:' /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/^ *//; s/[, ].*//' | tr A-Z a-z`
The following case doesn't seem to work with more than one CPU. In
my case CPU contains "power4+ power4+".
CPU=`grep '^cpu[[:space:]]*:' /proc/cpuinfo | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/^ *//; s/[, ].*//; q' | tr A-Z a-z`
fixes the problem.
Cheers,
Cajus
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