Fedora safe/recovery mode

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 21:28:31 UTC 2007


On 3/7/07, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:56 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > In Anaconda partitions.py Partitions.sanityCheckAllRequests() I see that
> > /boot must be at least 75 MB.
>
> arghrragrhrahrhrhrahrhgrh I'm apparently smoking crack
>
> Any chance of slimming the rescue disk down? Its currently ~85mb. ;P
>
> And if this honestly is a Good Idea, perhaps anaconda should start
> demanding a ~200mb /boot in FC7 so at least new installs will have space
> in the future. Dealing with old installs will be... somewhat
> problematic.
>
> Personally I want SystemRescueCd in my /boot too, that's 121mb.
> 121+85 = 206. 256mb should do...
>

Seems like this should be at least an option when installing:

"Do you want to install a failsafe mode? yes|no"

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