On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:22:58AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > 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.
Yes, i did. Ok, i will remove it then. > 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. Ok, that sounds better, but was not my impression from previous discussion on this. BTW, i tried a new install today and the configure&mount partition exhibited some strange (and buggy) behavior. I have 11 partitions, and i choose the last partition to be ext3 formated and mounted as /. The / is shown after the first partition though, and this is probably what happened the last time and what made d-i start formating a partition it should not. And then autopartkit overwrote my partition table. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
