On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 01:25 -0400, Trever Fischer wrote: > Excuse me if this is the wrong place to send this. > > As my fedora ambassador duties, I tend to show other students the neat > things you can do with Fedora with my trusty USB drive I always keep on my > keychain. More often than not, I'm booting up Fedora into some laptop or > university desktop with copious quantities of ram (more than 2G, commonly > 4 or more). Also more often than not, I've edited the boot options when it > starts up to add the 'live_ram' flag which copies the image into RAM and > permits me to unplug the USB drive so I'm not late for class while they > explore. > > I've longed for an option in the stock boot menu to expose this seemingly > hidden magic to the general public, so I wrote a tiny patch for > python-imgcreate (which is used by revisor). It adds one new option to the > isolinux boot menu, labeled "Boot and run from RAM". > > I've tested it by re-spinning the KDE spin and the custom one I use for > day-to-day use on my usb drive. Flawless victory. You'll probably need to re-diff this against the recent changes to add a 'basic graphics driver' entry to the same boot menu - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=195368 is the latest build (or check git). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
