Re: Driver Update Disk review comments (long)

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Hi,

I investigated the issue and posted couple of comments to the bugzilla. I think what I proposed is doable, but could use a second opinion.

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Martin Sivák
msivak@xxxxxxxxxx
Red Hat Czech
Anaconda team / Brno, CZ

----- "Jon Masters" <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 04:58 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> 
> > As part of reviewing Driver Update Disk support, I would like to
> share
> > the following comments, as well as some analysis. As a reminder,
> all
> > reference to branches or product names has been removed from this
> > posting because the anaconda list is publicly indexed. I am happy
> to
> > debate product focused issues on internal RH mail, but not
> publicly.
> 
> Now that RHEL6 beta1 has been released publicly, I can mention that
> this
> obviously pertains to RHEL6. I wasn't going to say that on a public
> list. And now, testing the beta1, we have some issues...the driver
> disk
> code isn't currently detecting either USB or IDE CDROM devices during
> the loader stage. I've begun poking but I'm pulling another late
> nighter
> on some other RHEL stuff tonight (this loader stuff is now on my
> weekend
> "fun with RHEL" list, though I'm trying to keep that list small...).
> 
> I would appreciate it if anyone with some spare cycles could look
> into
> the load from media code, and note that it doesn't even detect any
> media
> devices. There's an internal bug and I've mentioned more detail on
> IRC,
> but you can reproduce this by simply doing a "dd" on the boot prompt
> and
> using any random disk - it won't even see that you have the media,
> let
> alone look for the magic file marker that identifies the dd.
> 
> Jon.
> 
> 
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