Replacing the boot kernel in the installer

[Andrew Farris]

Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:30:56PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>> Bill Crawford wrote:
>>> On 23/01/2008, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The best way around it is to use rescue.iso instead.  Since rescue.iso
>>>> has stage2 on it, you can point it at any repo to do the install, like
>>>> your original F8 repo.
>>> Sounds good. I can't find a rescue.iso under development at the
>>> moment, though, so I'm going with (in order) trying to use rawhide
>>> vmlinuz + initrd.img (replacing .buildstamp with the one from F8); and
>>> if that doesn't work, actually replacing the F8 install kernel with
>>> the rawhide installer kernel and ditto the modules in the initrd ...
>>>
>> Rescue isos for rawhide that Jesse posted to install from the F8 repo.
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/rel-eng/trees/
> 
> I'd be *VERY* careful with those images due to this bug:
> 
> Bugzilla Bug 429782: "extents" flag appeared on ext3 filesystem, can't mount filesystem
> 
> You don't want to accidentally mess up your ext3 filesystems and make 
> them very hard to recover.

Good point, although If doing clean installs this bug doesn't bite you, 
shouldn't be a problem (as long as you're not sharing filesystems).
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429782

But for Valent, maybe using those is a bad idea then (since he will be sharing 
filesystems).

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