Hi Joey, On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:42:33AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Matt Kraai wrote: > > When I install on a Lemote Yeeloong, the resulting system fails to > > boot because the root filesystem uses ext4 and the kernel doesn't have > > a way to mount it since it doesn't use an initrd. The attached patch > > should make it do so. > > This adds subarch-specific logic to a new location. If mipsel > uses an initrd now, perhaps this in templates-arch should be changed? > Or does the kernel somehow only support an initrd on the loongson? > > Template: base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd-2.6 > Type: boolean > Default: true > Default[mips]: false > Default[mipsel]: false > Default[m68k]: false
The loongson-2f sub-architecture uses GRUB and is able to use an initrd. I don't know about the other subarchitectures... Copying debian-mips to see if anyone there knows. -- Matt Kraai https://ftbfs.org/kraai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110905222728.gb30...@ftbfs.org
