On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:23 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Here's a proper patch against SVN repository: > > > > I'll try to build a CD, and test it tomorrow on some computers at work. > > I'm afraid that IMO this patch is not a very good idea. > > First of all, as it is, it is incomplete and breaks other installation > methods (in fact, I think the change in config/x86.cfg is wrong for CD). > But that could be fixed.
I agree that the cd builder scripts should have been modified so only multiarch would haved used this new trick. But: > More importantly, I think it will break the addition of boot options by > the user, for example booting with 'install noapic'. Or are they > preserved somehow? That's confirmed: the arguments aren't passed. > And last but not least I feel that it is a too elaborate patch to support > multi-arch, which is after all an exception, and makes the far more > common single-arch use case needlessly complicated. I agree that if such solution were used, the trick should only be present in multiarch CD (But I wasn't able to provide such improvement). > I still feel that the basic problem is not in D-I, but in syslinux and > the > best option for Lenny may still be to just comment out 'default64 > amd64-install' and accept the resulting (minor) erratum. Especially since we are so close from the release, I completely agree. > I'll try to do some testing myself today on this issue. Let me know if I can help. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
