Hi,
I have researched how to include the needed modules in the initrd.
If I understand it correctly, it would be possible to add the modules as
dependencies of cdrom-detect.
But that would not be feasible, because the kernel modules have the
version of the kernel in their name and therefore the dependencies would
have to be updated every time a new kernel is released.
Instead I think the best way is to change the config files for the
debian-installer [1] that determine what udebs are included in which
initrd. They reside in installer/build/pkg-lists.
For the modules needed for loopmount I attached a patch against the
debian-installer. In this patch I just added the loop-, ext4-, ntfs- and
udf-modules to all config files that include cdrom-detect. This comes
close to making them dependencies of cdrom-detect, but it is much
easier, since in these config files one can use the variable
${kernel:Version} and doesn't have to update that manually.
Please include that patch in the debian-installer and then release the
new versions of cdrom-detect, apt-setup, hw-detect and mountmedia.
Best regards,
Andreas
1: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=tree
diff -rup debian-installer.orig/installer/build/pkg-lists/cd_drivers/common debian-installer/installer/build/pkg-lists/cd_drivers/common
--- debian-installer.orig/installer/build/pkg-lists/cd_drivers/common 2013-11-29 23:57:37.780913000 +0100
+++ debian-installer/installer/build/pkg-lists/cd_drivers/common 2013-11-30 12:37:18.882104469 +0100
@@ -3,3 +3,11 @@ cdrom-retriever
disk-detect
cdrom-detect
file-preseed
+
+# This is for cdrom-detect to be able to loopmount an ISO.
+loop-modules-${kernel:Version}
+
+# This is to enable loopmount/usb-hdd from common non-fat file systems:
+ext4-modules-${kernel:Version}
+ntfs-modules-${kernel:Version}
+udf-modules-${kernel:Version}
diff -rup debian-installer.orig/installer/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/common debian-installer/installer/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/common
--- debian-installer.orig/installer/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/common 2013-11-29 23:57:37.780913000 +0100
+++ debian-installer/installer/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/common 2013-11-30 12:37:30.274111670 +0100
@@ -31,3 +31,11 @@ save-logs
mountmedia
libfribidi0-udeb
+
+# This is for cdrom-detect to be able to loopmount an ISO.
+loop-modules-${kernel:Version}
+
+# This is to enble loopmount/usb-hdd from common non-fat file systems:
+ext4-modules-${kernel:Version}
+ntfs-modules-${kernel:Version}
+udf-modules-${kernel:Version}
diff -rup debian-installer.orig/installer/build/pkg-lists/cdrom-apus/common debian-installer/installer/build/pkg-lists/cdrom-apus/common
--- debian-installer.orig/installer/build/pkg-lists/cdrom-apus/common 2013-11-29 23:57:37.780913000 +0100
+++ debian-installer/installer/build/pkg-lists/cdrom-apus/common 2013-11-30 12:37:40.694118260 +0100
@@ -24,3 +24,11 @@ save-logs
mountmedia
libfribidi0-udeb
+
+# This is for cdrom-detect to be able to loopmount an ISO.
+loop-modules-${kernel:Version}
+
+# This is to enable loopmount/usb-hdd from common non-fat file systems:
+ext4-modules-${kernel:Version}
+ntfs-modules-${kernel:Version}
+udf-modules-${kernel:Version}
