On 11/30/2009 01:27 PM, Peter Jones wrote: > On 11/30/2009 12:27 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> 3. 'Chain-booting' from cd to usb sounds like an elegant way to avoid >> the 'Can't boot USB' problem. Did we figure out how Mandriva are doing >> it ? > > No, we didn't. There are some things we might be able to do here, though, > which may solve this problem without actually "chain-booting". The most > obvious is to make sure the live image's initrd searches for a USB device > with the right filesystem label (and possibly other criteria) and mounts > that as root, and then build a liveboot.iso with one boot image and no[1] > real filesystem. The boot image would contain the kernel and initrd as > the only boot option. > > This is fairly trivial to do, actually. > > [1] It'd have to have an iso9660 filesystem with the isolinux/ directory > much like our current boot.iso does, but the kernel and initrd there would > be the ones from the live image, and we wouldn't put the rest of the live > OS on the disc. > Further research[1] seems to indicate that this is almost exactly what they're doing. [1] Adam pointed me at http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/soft/drakx/trunk/rescue/make_flash_rescue?revision=263686&view=markup -- Peter The Shuttle is now going five times the sound of speed. -- Dan Rather, first landing of Columbia -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
