Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Initramfs-tools May produce too big images for some arches. This needs > to be verified and documented (Sven seems most knowledgable about this). > > Yaird needs sysfs on running system so cannot be used from a 2.4 > system. This may not be an issue to d-i. > > Yaird does not support custom hooks. This is probably not a problem for > d-i. > > None of the new tools support all of the more exotic features, it > seems. This also probably is irrelevant for d-i.
Thanks, good summary. IIRC the same image size issues also affected initrd-tools on some powerpc subarches, and initrd-tools ended up being set to "dep" on powerpc to deal with that. > I don't understand what "temporary hardcoding of root partition" > actually means. > > Yaird looks at /etc/fstab for the root partion. d-i currently does this before installing mkinitrd-tools: # Temporarily hardcode the root partition. rootpart_devfs=$(mount | grep "on /target " | cut -d' ' -f1) rootpartfs=$(mount | grep "on /target " | cut -d' ' -f5) rootpart=$(mapdevfs $rootpart_devfs) if [ -f $mkinitrdconf ]; then sed -e "s#^ROOT=.*#ROOT='$rootpart $rootpartfs'#" < $mkinitrdconf > $mkinitrdconf.new && mv $mkinitrdconf.new $mkinitrdconf else echo "ROOT='$rootpart $rootpartfs'" >> $mkinitrdconf fi Appacently Colin has already checked that initramfs-tools doesn't need such a hack, and since we have a fstab and based on what you said I've removed the TODO item about needing to check yaird. -- see shy jo
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