[arch-dev-public] ArchISO FTP Installer - Round 2

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>
>
> >
> > > pointed out.. system would not boot, I needed to change my /dev/hda2
> > > references to /dev/sda2 references in fstab and grub menu.lst.
> Installation
> > > used legacy IDE drivers, boot used PATA drivers.
> > >  PATA should be the default now! Almost nobody will need IDE (except
> maybe
> > > for sis controllers).
> > >
> >
> > So it should be a simple matter of modifying the mkinitcpio config to
> > match the stock kernel's - except, of course, for the typical archiso
> > stuff.
> >
>
>  Actually, I think there should be two configurations: One with PATA and one
> with IDE (as long as we use grub, it's easy to have several). The installer
> should somehow remember what choice we made at boot time and modify the
> system's mkinitcpio.conf.

That's actually a good idea - make 2 ramfs images for IDE and PATA.
Or... well that naming might be confusing. Stock and "Legacy IDE" or
something 8)