On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:14:46PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > I filed #245012 against the "package" installation-reports since I am > unable to find what is the right package that should handle this.
The powerpc kernels. > The problem is that without initrd only some filesystems are available > for mounting the root device, because they are compiled into the kernel. > > I would like to have d-i know what file systems are compiled in this way > and let the user format the root filesystem using one of those. It might > be possibile to just warn the user and tell him about the problem. > > Yesterday, on powerpc, i did create a root XFS partition and, after the > first reboot I was unable to mount it with kernel > kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac :-( > > Probably the right way is to require that all kernels used during the > installation have ext2/3, reiserfs, and XFS built into the kernel. This is the case on configurations other than powerpc-small. However, it's the wrong answer. Somebody needs to send a patch to make it use an initrd; since it uses kernel-package, this shouldn't be difficult. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
