On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 10:11 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > This code is dead (long-term.) Note that mkinitrd itself has support > for NFS boot, iSCSI, etc.
Understand that, but there is still a modification of NFS boot for Diskless/Stateless in RHEL 5, even if based on older developments. > There is a livecd-tools branch for RHEL 5 - I believe Rahul maintains > that. Yes, that's what I'm looking at. It's livecd-tools 013-5 in EPEL. I've discussed with him off-list. > Attempting to catalog a list of network/storage module is a long-term > failure. We do a hack in anaconda by looking for modules that reference > certain needed symbols (register_net_device, register_block, etc.), but > it's still a hack. And only in newer Fedora developments (post-RHEL 5) as I understand it? > Honestly, I'm not sure what we really need right now is Yet Another > initrd project. There's talk of a new upstream one that can hopefully > be shared by multiple distros, but that's still a ways off from production. > In the meantime, it's probably better to just fix what's there. Which means merging system-config-netboot approaches, its init script, etc... with mayflower for RHEL 5-specific details that do not have newer Fedora developments. Furthermore, I guess the "initrd" was the inappropriate term to use. What I'm talking more about is radical departure from what "mayflower" currently does, to look at the problem more generically -- not just for LiveCDs, but Diskless, Flash, etc... -- Bryan J Smith - Senior Consultant - Red Hat GPS SE US mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (non-RH/ext to Blackberry) ----------------------------------------------------- For every dollar you spend on Red Hat solutions, you not only fund the leading community development re- source, but you receive the #1 IT industry leader in corporate value. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
