On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:20:10PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > If someone were to start looking at it, we could probably even get some > simple stuff done for F7 since we're not talking about huge amounts of > stuff. Also, once we have the basics, we can think about things like > integrating the functionality into the live CD as well. The last time this came up, IIRC, was Jeff Layton's mkinitrd rescue mode patch. I haven't looked at anaconda since then, so I have no idea where things were taken for FC6+. My firm is currently rolling our own initramfs that we use for PXE installs, as well as providing a ramfs-based rescue mode. I've encouraged my colleague to package this as a mkinitrd replacement that might be more generally useful. As I mentioned last go-round, GRUB (and perhaps the other boot loaders) can load multiple initramfs payloads. That means that one can have a small standard *kernel-independent* payload, a kernel-dependent payload (modules, probably udev at the rate we are going :-|), perhaps an install-specific image (e.g., localization info -- fonts, keyboard maps), and a large, static rescue payload. With suitable hooks in the standard payloads to test for the existence of various files (just like /fastboot, /forcefsck, etc.), task-specific initramfs payloads could be dropped into /boot and do their bit automatically. E.g., one of the things that we are doing is failing out and doing an upgrade on half of a RAID1; if the upgrade fails, we boot back into the old image. Another oft-requested task is running parted to move partitions around. Regards, Bill Rugolsky -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
