On 04/07/2010 05:27 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: > We need to do something to make iscsi driver which need to be brought up > manually available in rescue mode before we search for a / to rescue. > > There are 2 options: > > 1) Add some text mode UI stuff to do this > 2) Make rescue mode graphical, and make rescue mode > go through the filter UI. > > I think in the long run we will want to do 2). But I guess that is too late > RHEL-6, so that we need to do 1) there. > > Any input / comments is appreciated. I'll try to make some time > to work on 1) (if no-one yells no) in the next few days. Having an "Add zFCP" dialog in text mode would be nice. :) Realistically, on s390, we have early DASD activation in linuxrc.s390 and this did work with the latest RHEL6 compose I had access to. We also have FCP_*="..." boot options. However, they are currently only activated late in storage/zfcp.py. If that could be triggered for rescue mode as well, then we would have at least a workaround for all disk types on s390 and that would be great. > About 2). I think this is the logical and best thing to do in the > long run, given that we are already doing kms even in rescue mode, > we are already making rescue mode dependent on having working graphics, > so I don't see any big blockers here. 2) won't work if you only have serial lines or even line-mode terminals. With the last RHEL6 compose I had access to, rescue mode worked fine on s390 since it does not yet seem to depend on a frame buffer or the like and I think this dependency should never happen. Otherwise you would also need to support early network configuration to provide VNC/X11. Steffen Linux on System z Development IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
