On May 25 2005, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:01:31AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Yes, that was the point of my message. OTOH, the sarge d-i says that > > quik won't work with a /boot partition separated from a root partition. > > This is mainly because the quik.conf resides in /etc. (at least that's > why I think the d-i manual says this). It would probably make sense to > move quik.conf to /boot. You could make /boot/etc/quik.conf and symlink > /etc/quik.conf to it.
Humm, now that's interesting. I am Cc'ing the debian-boot list so that they see this. When I tried installing sarge via d-i taken from a post -rc3 version in Sven's home directory at people.d.o, I made a separate /boot partition and the installer refused to make the system bootable (my intention was to have a small ro /boot ext2 partition where I would put the kernels and to use the rest as my root device, with an ext3 fs -- I'm quite tight on space here and having more partitions would be an inconvenience). I will make some more tests here to see what I can get. The biggest problem that I have here is that the battery of my system is completely drained it "forgets" both the OpenFirmware boot-command and boot-device settings that I configure. I have even made a script to restore these settings automatically (obviously not a clean solution -- but I don't have easy access to a replacement battery here where I live). > quik itself either uses the partition explicitly specified in quik.conf > by the partition= statement or the first bootable partition on the device > it was started from. You can put /boot on a separate partition. You can > even put it on a different device if you specify the device path in > quik.conf. So, it's not *that* inflexible. > > It would be so nice if it were possible to have a unified bootloader for > > both oldworld and newworld machines that understood symlinks (the config > > file for quik mentions that it doesn't know how to follow symlinks). > > That's not right either. I just tried on my ans using quik 2.1-6 and > symlink worked just fine. You do have to stay within the same partition > though. I will experiment with this, then and report back what I see. And I think that the documentation should be fixed before the release of sarge, then. BTW, having the "image=/vmlinuz" and "image=/vmlinuz.old" symlinks managed by kernel-image is quite handy, IMVHO. Thanks for your comments, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
