On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 10:53 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Would it be possible to add a feature to rescue mode and/or the livecd > to fix things up after a move to new hardware? That is, check and re-do > all of the stuff that happens during an install to build the initrd > image in /boot, re-install grub, set up X and the other > hardware-related black magic that happens in an install? The obvious > use case would be where your motherboard fries and you move the disk(s) > to another box with a controller that needs a different driver, but you > get the same scenario if you've done a backup/restore or you want to > convert something that has been running under vmware to real hardware. > In the backup/restore case it may also be necessary to fix up /etc/fstab > and/or partition labels to match but I'm not so concerned about the > parts where the changes are known and intentional as I am about having > to know as much as the installer does about matching hardware to drivers. > > Does such a thing already exist, and if not, where is the right place to > file an RFE? These are the sorts of things that I'd hope to be able to integrate into FirstAidKit[1], which is being written so that it should be usable both by rescue mode as well as on the live CD Jeremy [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/FirstAidKit -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
