Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 08:17: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:41:18PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:14:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Aha! I got a working kernel. I guess I know more than I think I do :) > > > > > > > > Here is the diff for the config, from your -small config. I really > > > > don't know which of these were essential, I ended up with only 59k > > > > free space on the floppy. But I guess that's enough. > > > For now it is. Altough I think most of the options you enabled are not > > > necessary. Could you test, if the keyboard also works for loading the > > > initrd when you only enable these two settings: > > > > -CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=m > > > > -CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=m > > > > +CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=y > > > > +CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y > > > > I tried several times to make kernels witha smaller set of options, > > but they all failed to boot, or else panicked after booting. I guess I > > got very lucky the first time. I'm sure we must not need IDE and SCSI > > drivers, but I didn't have any luck with the them left out. > > BTW, the -powerpc kernel fails to boot on my pegasos system, but this is > probably due to devfs. Do you all run devfs with its cryptic device > paths, or is there some other trick to it ? The kernel stops after > having mounted the root partition, first it takes some time to do the > clock stuff, and finally times out, and then halts. I suppose this is > due because it doesn't find my non-devfs fstab or something such. Did you set CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT in your kernel config? You don't need that for debian-installer. Normal installations should not run devfs at all (it will not be the default for sarge) or use devfsd which takes care of compatibility symlinks and permissions. > > Which comes to another thing that worries me. I recently built a > 2.6.0-test9 upstream kernel for x86, and devfs was clearly marked as > being obsoleted by udev, and the help stuff says : > > Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev, > <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>. > It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for > legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is > unfortunately different from the names normal Linux installations > use. > > So i wonder if it really makes sense to use devfs for debian-installer, > have all the woody systems updated to use the cryptic devfs scheme, only > to have it be moved to something different again in sarge+1 or when > supporting 2.6.x kernels. No system will be updated to devfs by debian-installer. Devfs is only used during installation, not on the installed system. > > What do we need it for anyway ? > To see which devices are available to the kernel?
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