Request: boot rescue environment from USB key

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Mar 10 19:42:20 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 19:01 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:29 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 18:25 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > as I said it already works.
> > > Except that anaconda as whole didn't think usb sticks come in 2
> > > varieties: partitioned and unpartitioned. It assumed only partitioned.
> > 
> > Which part of anaconda?  I know I wrote code at least once to handle
> > both cases.
> 
> the part that tries to find stage2.img; it refuses to look at the usb
> stick if there's no partition table. (disclaimer: this was with the
> fc5test3 images, it can be that you fixed it since)

Yeah, doesn't look like that code is as smart.  If you file something,
that should be easy to knock out for FC6

Jeremy




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