[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] use isolinux instead of grub

Thomas Chung tchung at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 22 19:51:33 UTC 2007


On 2/22/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> While using grub works for CD booting in a lot of cases, it also seems
> to have problems on some hardware.  isolinux is what we've always used
> everywhere else for CD booting, so it probably makes sense to be
> consistent with the live CD.[1]  Attached moves to using isolinux and
> the vesamenu + splash bits that are used for anaconda.
>
> Probably worth looking at making things more generic with things like
> the location of the splash image, but this change doesn't actually make
> that a worse problem, per se.
>
> Jeremy
>
> [1] ... since I'm quite happy leaving my days of bootloader debugging
> behind me :-)
>

Will isolinux support DVD booting?
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
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