FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Nov 12 22:04:12 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> said:
> ----- "Chris Adams" <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> > I don't think increasing /boot just because of preupgrade is a viable
> > solution, as the installer image continues to grow.  Is it possible
> > instead to put the installer image (the real problem) somewhere else,
> > like /?  Why does it need to be in /boot?
> 
> Because anaconda's stage1 (initrd) doesn't know how to assemble 
> LVM/mdraid/dmraid/whatever crazy thing your root partition is on. 
> So install.img needs to be on something that stage1 can read.

How about using dracut for anaconda's initrd as well?  Obviously, not
for F12, but maybe for F13?

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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