> 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). I already did, actually. This patch puts the code immediately before the "Basic Video" option, and can be cleanly applied to 6f79b742. -- Trever Fischer (tdfischer) Fedora Ambassador, KDE Hacker http://wm161.net GPG: C40F2998 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
