RFE? Re-detect hardware

[Jeremy Katz]

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