On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Rafal <fatwild...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 07/29/2017 10:15 PM, Ben Hildred wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Rafal <fatwild...@gmail.com <mailto: >> fatwild...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to prepare Debian installer for NanoPi M3 board. This >> is an arm64 device. I have a custom kernel package (which contains >> drivers specific to the board) and I'm trying to build network >> debian-installer (netboot) with a few additional local udeb's >> whose will install the custom kernel on target system and make the >> system bootable.But I can not cope with a few problems. >> >> The first problem is that anna complains about missing kernel >> modules. The complain is completely unnecessary but I don't know >> how to avoid it. Is possible to disable the complain somehow? >> >> >> Provide a kernel modules package. >> > The kernel modules package is provided and even pre-installed in the > initrd image, but anna complains anyway. More precisely, it complains that > debian repository does not contain udeb packages with modules for my > kernel. It cannot contain, because I haven't access to your repository.
Ah, good. If you want to add it to the repository debian mentors can probably help. However for testing setup your own repository. It only need s the changed packages and the new kernel. Then a preseed file to point to both repos. > > > >> Second problem I have with bootstrap-base package, It installs >> also kernel. It picks some kernel from Debian repository, but this >> kernel will not work. Is possible to avoid kernel installation by >> the bootstrap-base package? >> >> Provide a kernel package >> >> Actually Both problems can be solved by packaging the kernel which >> provides a kernel deb and a kernel modules udeb which at the very least >> makes usb both fully functional and not use unnecessary kernel memory. The >> only times you don't want modules at all is on tuned setups for very narrow >> applications or for boards with no hotplug capability at all which means no >> usb which means at the very least the mouse will be a challenge. >> > I have the kernel package but net-retriever attempts to pick some package > from your repository only. It does not see my kernel package despite it is > bundled in the initrd image. I have prepared my own kernel installer which > installs the kernel on target system. Hence I want to disable kernel > installation by the bootstrap-base package. It may be interesting to add functionality to pull packages out of the initrd, but I doubt it would have wide usability since you can pull from multiple repos. > > > >> Rafal >> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Ben Hildred >> Automation Support Services >> >> > -- -- Ben Hildred Automation Support Services
