sounder current daily d-i notes

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:43:08AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:38:21PM +0100, Thom May wrote:
> > Grub install halts at 50%:
> > grub-install support --no-floppy
> > Running chroot /target /sbin/grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
> > 
> > and then nothing. Killing the grub process appears to restart it and i then
> > get a working grub config.
> > Grub should probably inherit the fact that I booted with noapic.
> > (or we should turn off apic on uniproc machines altogether - Red Hat
> > certainly do this).
> 
> Hmm, good idea.  grub-installer should probably notice if you had to boot
> with special parameters, and propagate those to the installed system.

We can do that, but currently on a case-by-case basis (I was thinking of
making it propagate acpi= to make things less painful on my
ACPIly-broken Vaio). Joey was working on a more general mechanism at the
conference, but I've fallen a little behind on d-i commit logs so I'm
not yet sure how far he got ...

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson at flatline.org.uk]