On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:24:20AM -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > I am not sure when this started happening, but with "recent" Fedora > releases for systems with grub2 bootloaders, an additional "rescue" > kernel has been provided. This "rescue" kernel is never updated but > remains the same as that provided by anaconda. I assume that it is > the kernel that was available at install time. I also assume that > the purpose of the "rescue" kernel is to provide a backup capability > just in case the updating of kernels has managed to create an > unbootable system. > > The question: If this is a good option for grub2 based systems, why > isn't a good options to have for systems with extlinux bootloaders > too? It's a fine option, but the feature to add extlinux support was done just to support building cloud images, where the rescue image can't be selected and is therefore just deadweight, so that wasn't added. That doesn't mean the feature couldn't be further extended to be more generally useful, but no one is signed up for the work. If you want to do it, I'll help test. If you add this image to the extlinux.conf file by hand, of course, it will work as expected. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
