Evgeni Golov wrote: > How to use: > boot as cdrom > > OR > grub2: > loopback loop /debian-7.0-amd64-NETINST-findiso.iso > set root=(loop) > linux /install.amd/vmlinux findiso > initrd /install.amd/initrd.gz > boot > > OR > kvm: > kvm -kernel dest/cdrom/vmlinuz -initrd dest/cdrom/initrd.gz \ > -append 'findiso' -hda /tmp/blah -boot a
So for this to work, the user has to go out of their way to configure it to be used, including specifying the initrd to use. Why is this better than the user downloading the hd-media initrd.gz and using that? This cannot quite replace hd-media, because the hd-media initrd contains many more kernel drivers, to be able to scan hard drives. Those are not included on the cdrom initrd to avoid bloating it. As one of the main authors and maintainers of iso-scan, I see it being used in increasingly limited circumstances, and have been hoping that those use-cases will narrow to the point that it can be removed. Making it marginally easier to boot the CD with grub2 is a very narrow use-case indeed, and not a good justification for adding iso-scan to the cdrom initrd. -- see shy jo
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