RE: Testing changes to the Anaconda loader

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Title: RE: Testing changes to the Anaconda loader

-----Original Message-----
From:   anaconda-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jeremy Katz
Sent:   Wed 10/4/2006 4:16 PM

>The easiest thing to do is to do a network boot via PXE (or the
>equivalent if you're on another arch) with a kernel + updated initrd.
>anaconda/scripts/upd-initrd will let you drop in a new loader binary
>pretty easily and then you can boot to test stuff.

>Spinning an entire tree really is a bit of a last-ditch way of testing
>changes :)

>Jeremy

How about using VMWare Server to test certain loader functionalities? You can also do a CD/DVD test to see if things work right also.

I use this when lurking in the loader2 code :-)

Shawn.


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