Re: Installing to NBD

2011-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > So, AIUI, there isn't really a way for me to do this, since all > bootloader installers have hardcoded logic to decide they want to run; > so if I want to make this work correctly (so that none of the > bootloaders will attempt to write to disk by default), I'll have to > p

Re: Installing to NBD

2011-06-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:36:03PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:22:51PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > seems to be pretty much in the same boat, in that each of the bootloader > > installers implements their own logic to come up with a reasonable > > kernel command

Re: Installing to NBD

2011-06-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:22:51PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > seems to be pretty much in the same boat, in that each of the bootloader > installers implements their own logic to come up with a reasonable > kernel command line. > > So if I want to implement this properly, I'll have to patch ea

Re: Installing to NBD

2011-06-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, (I seem to be mostly talking to myself here -- anyone awake? ;-) On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:49:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:29:38PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > - Once the installatoin is complete, the installer will attempt to > > install grub to the

Re: Installing to NBD

2011-06-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, Some updates: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:29:38PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > A while back, I blogged about success in installing to an NBD device[1]. > Unfortunately, that was only partial success; that is, while it works > perfectly well as far as partman is concerned (and there

Installing to NBD

2011-06-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, A while back, I blogged about success in installing to an NBD device[1]. Unfortunately, that was only partial success; that is, while it works perfectly well as far as partman is concerned (and therefore also the base-installer step), beyond that things go a bit wrong: - /usr/lib/finish-insta