Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-10

Hi!

On 4/24/19 2:04 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I have just verified that and debian-cd uses the initrd which is generated for CD-ROM installers,
> not the one for netboot installers. So, if it is performing a netboot installation then the bug
> must be in debian-installer.

Looking at the main configuration file for hppa in debian-installer, it seems that
it only builds netboot variants, both for cdrom and netboot images.

However, I don't understand the underlying mechanisms in debian-installer well enough
yet to fix this problem. But generally speaking, the debian-installer build process
normally creates two different initrds, one for CD-ROM installation - it also includes
the CD-ROM drivers, for example - and one for network installation which includes
various network drivers.

I am planning to work in this particular area in debian-installer in any case as I
want to switch all other Debian Ports architectures to using GRUB as a bootloader for
the CD image where it's supported. I need to read some more documentation and source
code before I can start though.

Adrian

> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/blob/master/build/config/hppa.cfg