On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 00:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:39:44 +0100 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > Secondly, if the installation uses LVM, /dev/sda1 is the /boot > > partition, not the root partition. After fixing the first problem, > > flash-kernel fails like this: > > Actually, this doesn't depend on LVM. The installer always creates a > separate /boot partition using the ext2 filesystem, and this makes sense > as u-boot generally doesn't support ext4. So I think that the /boot > prefix should be removed from the paths for this entry. (And maybe many > other entries.)
I think you are likely correct. I'm considering declaring that all such db fields are always relative to /boot and having f-k decide if it needs to prepend /boot or not, perhaps based on "stat -c %m /boot" or something similar. > (I know u-boot has optional support for ext4 now, but there's no sign of > it in this version. For reference, that's: > U-Boot 2011.12 (Aug 26 2013 - 13:08:34) > Plat'Home version: 2.0.7 (Marvell version: 2012_Q4.0p17) > ) Typical ancient u-boot, oh well! Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1430577628.15640.149.ca...@debian.org
