-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:42:00 -0500 Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski@xxxxxxxxx> escribió: > On 11/27/2013 10:44 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > 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. > > > So, the only reason that extlinux was added was for cloud support and > the rescue kernel would not be of use there. I suspect that most > (almost all) folks prefer the flexibility and general functionality > of grub2 although there is grumbling now and then about it being > complex and hard to understand let alone get it to do something > specific. > > From that perspective, extlinux does offer a significant advantage: > it is plain simple (or can be anyway). This might be attractive to a > not-insignificant portion of the Fedora users if it was explained and > demonstrated to them. > > I also noticed that debian has an extlinux-update script which > manages to complexity things like grub2-mkconfig does. It uses > os-prober in a manner similar to the way grub2 does to find other > installed/bootable systems so that entries can be added for them. > > I am not sure how much, if any, effort should be expended in > improving extlinux capabilities. > > Having said that, a question Matt since you seem to be much more > familiar with extlinux (an I assume syslinux also): does > extlinux/syslinux currently have the functionality to replace grub2? > Does it support EFI? grub2 is the only bootloader in fedora with support for secure boot Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSlrg4AAoJEH7ltONmPFDRBPcQALaayqB7mU96pKv9D653is2k 1yqgGURsu1u3od8PjKezZCm86/UcrJPElMHCtDsNBuPLzts4zX0pqRZxl0jzyUXh ivatWpKFEvJtdgSehmJ+zmxLvRSI/4SFNAE4PA2ZOapH8jr4rZD5hNRCdAoJyNA/ InLoXx/5QXXKqRiRxLRPyBhgFpSOp7jlQU7Iyy5aEYAecnDCvNsU0A0lMGmcsxGu WFIg2rFgbT3BWS2sW8zH/XVhTz6JXiCs3R0tuA4R+9A1m9Nzyy4L6f8V4D9Z/Im6 YP5ZMM/W1ao4H5A6rc0F/sDdG9sUIp0/IAhg3HHp96RzNvpXiphd7n/rIwwYeeS0 d0qhXhxW1F2Ulte5ehPyB5Rnf4RNVLoskGm25f9fR/unbPTQssbgGCUcJ0nXdb4C xlx1cDKxR3zVqu9BNuuPYFEO+S2Q0Fe8QCMhXeOlwQ8uZgIdZ954Dv3G6Z0xt2Cz sjjrnbFInu6upDFZHnFKAf3PdL3E9mEfj5mQ1f03mt2SfvSWwTo7ip4U/eXxNTE8 Cxf6Y1h37M6XE3iWd9r12dYPjaychNNoyF4P+wvPGyPTEB45vMpSk5zJIwPb2wNt rqxqwlZZyAobtjkQbaJ89/NkxIawQ4dc8IiHbgmZAYj4ApoJel1DtUD+DpPFuND1 22myt9spl8q6GXS9gg4z =YTs6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
