On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:53:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:43:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > 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 ? > > > > No, it's not. > > > > > 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. > > > > Most of the modules are available in the d-i environment, although you > > need to run the appropriate "Load installer components from ..." stage > > to get a lot of them. The standard procedure is to run the installer up > > to the point where it starts the partitioner (by which point it still > > hasn't written anything to the disks), then switch to tty2, mount your > > root filesystem on /target, and chroot. > > Maybe a installer option that would do just that would be a good idea. This > way we could redo the rescue functionality of the old boot-floppies. > > Not sure if it is easily doable technically though.
It probably is, maybe a set of two .udebs which are placed just before partman in priority. The first one would check for the presence of a certain boot option (or cdebconf value set from the kernel command line) and drop into a shell, while the second would simply halt the machine or something such. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
