Package: linux-source-2.6.22
Version: 2.6.22-1
Severity: normal
File: linux-source-2.6.22
summary: you can't boot from a naive mirror anymore. i have a
solution below.
a user who copies to a root partition with rsync (at least with
--one-file-system) will most likely expect it to boot. instead it
hangs with "unable to create an initial virtual console". this can
lead to users throwing the computer out a window, or doing unnecessary
debugging. ahem.
the suboptimal workaround is to special-case /dev/.static/dev . this
is not obvious to people who don't know about udev.
so for the sake of this common operation by likely many users, instead
of hanging, i think that the kernel should boot. at least the
following solution allows this:
1. udev put .static on the actual disk so that rsync copies it.
2. on boot, if /dev is unpopulated and unbootable, the kernel
looks for .static, and fixes things.
if this is unworkable, the kernel should check for an unpopulated /dev
and tell the user about it.
in general, imho the kernel can be improved in many ways like this to
help the user.
thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22myver-6-badinstall
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.22 depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.22 recommends:
ii gcc 4:4.1.1-15 The GNU C compiler
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii make 3.81-2 The GNU version of the "make" util
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