On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:22 -0500, Jeff Bastian wrote: > When downloading a driver disk from an http or ftp server with > linux dd=http://... > the loader first calls busProbe() to load the network drivers, but this > also loads storage drivers (and more), so you cannot update storage > drivers with this method. > > The attached patch turns the LOADER_FLAGS_NOSTORAGE flag on before calling > busProbe() and then restores the original flags afterwards. This loads > the network drivers, but doesn't touch storage until the next call to > busProbe() which will use the updated drivers. > > Thoughts? The problem is that you could be loading your driver disk off of something that comes from a storage driver (which comment in the code aside, is supported now). By not loading storage drivers, you then don't have the driver for where you may be grabbing your driver disk. Also, this doesn't apply at all on master Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
