Frans Pop wrote: > - We do however assume we can keep on using the oldfashioned initrd > support for booting d-i, so it would be nice if you were not too quick > in disabling/modularizing needed filesystem support in kernel configs > for 2.6.13. > We do intend to switch to initrdfs for d-i itself in the long run as it > appears to offer more flexibility (loading multiple cpio archives to > "extend" a basic initial initrd). However, that will be a fairly major > project. IIRC Jeff Bailey has some thoughts on that.
It's not really very hard to get d-i to boot from an initramfs. All the support for it is there, except you run into bug #317062 at the end of the install. -- see shy jo
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