Control: tags -1 + wontfix
> Subject: Problem in hppa.xml > Date: Monday 10 May 2004 03:52 > From: "Bruno Barrera C." <bruno.barr...@igloo.cl> > To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org > > Hello, > > Reading > "installer/doc/manual/en/partitioning/partition/hppa.xml" I found this: > > "This is where the boot loader and an optional kernel > and RAMdisk will be stored, so make it big enough for that -- at least > 4Mb (I like 8-16Mb). An additional requirement of the firmware is that > the Linux kernel must reside within the first 2GB of the disk. This > is typically achieved by making the root ext2 partition fit entirely > within the first 2GB of the disk. Alternatively you can create a small > ext2 partition near the start of the disk and mount that on..." > > Really this needs to be an ext2 partition? Isn't an anachronism > about when the debian kernels didn't use initrd to load the driver > of the filesystem, required to mount the root filesystem? Since hppa is not a release architecture for years, I'm tagging this bug as wont-fix -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Finterprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
