On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:00:26PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote: > In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is > that the case in d-i ? > > I seem to remember d-i asking me which kernel to install so I suspect this > means that the d-i kernel is not installed on the target system. > > If the d-i kernel ins not installed on the target system then I think that > the d-i boot floppy cannot have the "rescue" boot option that bf had as > there will be no matching kernel modules in the root filesystem. > > The d-i can still be used as a rescue system by booting into expert mode > and then dropping to a shell to mount and fix your damaged system. Perhaps > a rescue mode could be added to d-i which loads up the ramdisk prompts > for language and keyboard info then drops to a root shell. This would be a > different kind of rescue mode to the old bf rescue mode.
Another nice feature would be a easy way to rerun just the boot loader installation, for dual-boot cases, where some other os decided to wipe the boot loader. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]