Hi Joachim! On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:54:55 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 12.11.2008, 09:57 +0100 schrieb Luca Capello: >> Considering that dpkg itself does not support non-POSIX filesystems >> and that we want to switch to stock Debian kernels sometime in the >> future, I propose to officially drop the support for /boot on vfat. > > no objections (People can still manually put a kernel there and not use > the kernel package, if they have to).
Another option: we support /boot on vfat, but for everything except the
kernel (untested):
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diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 0e3b036..6ec1195 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ Stages:
fso Installs packages required to use the Zhone GUI
configuration Configures various parts of the system, such as
the X server
- kernel Downloads and installs kernel package
+ kernel Downloads and installs the Debian kernel package
+ (only when $SD_PART1_FS is set to ext2)
unmount Unmounts the Debian filesystem mounted at $INST_DIR
Unsupported or buggy stages, use at your own risk:
@@ -598,6 +599,15 @@ kernel)
# Stage kernel
#
echo "Installing kernel package"
+
+if [ "$SD_PART1_FS" = "vfat" ]; then
+ echo "E: when using $SD_PART1_FS as filesystem for the first microSD
card"
+ echo " partition, you should manully install the kernel, since dpkg"
+ echo " does not support non-POSIX filesystems:"
+ echo " http://bugs.debian.org/bug=315493";
+ exit 1
+fi
+
chroot $INST_DIR /bin/sh -e <<__END_CHROOT__
apt-get --yes install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02
apt-get clean
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I will commit the above patch on Wednesday if no one complains before.
Then, I will consider this issue as closed and in the future mark as
wontfix any related bugs.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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