On 2012/05/09 13:32 (GMT+0100) Frank Murphy composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Where's what dracut wants instead of all it claims is obsolete when I try to use what's there for F17 installation via an installed Grub Legacy stanza?
Is there some reason Fedora BFO won't suit? https://boot.fedoraproject.org/faq
I didn't know it existed until your post. I looked for a definition of lkrn, but there doesn't seem to be one anywhere Google can find. It looks like a good solution for some problems, just not mine. I'm not familiar with anything about PXE beyond its existence, and only guest systems use DHCP here, never my own.
Virtually the only times I boot anything other than a HD are: 1-for some task of which using live media is an integral part, and 2-a brand new HD needs partitions and MBR code. I always partition in advance of installing any OS, and always use generic M$ equivalent MBR code. I very rarely used USB for anything, as that media type poses physical labeling trouble, keeping track of where the little gadgets are, and what they contain. Floppies are slow, last choice except for some of the simplest tasks. OM are faster, and can be written on, but still impose some slowness and the where is the one I need hiding this time problem.
Grub stanzas to load a previously downloaded kernel and initrd are both bandwidth savers, time savers, and brain savers, the latter a kind of cheat sheet so that when several weeks or months have passed since I solved a what broke this time problem I don't need to remember, and I don't have to look up or retype static ip info and other cmdline options that worked. It's all right there in the stanza(s), which I can copy from host to host in my local network of many unique multiboot host configurations.
Still, thanks for this new method to avoid downloading and burning large isos for one or few uses. :-)
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