Once upon a time, Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> said: > On 02/15/2011 10:40 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > On 2011/02/15 08:36 (GMT-0500) James Laska composed: > > > >> Good-bye install.img, hello initrd.img! > > > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/UnifiedInitrd > > > >> The installer no longer needs to locate where install.img is (network, > >> DVD, HD). The content previously included in the stage#2 install.img > >> file, is now included in the initrd.img. > > > > And goodbye to my to my customary installation method of loading > > installation > > kernel and initrd from my many little 200M /boot partitions that don't have > > room for being made larger. Good thing the two files needn't be located the > > same place, but it makes keeping track of where they are more complex. I > > guess I can use home's root or give home's root an install dir, and put even > > kernel there too. Or, maybe on my user/local partition. Or, on a FAT or NTFS > > partition?!?!? > > Hm, yeah, this is going to break koan as well, isn't it for systems with > small > /boot filesystems.
Hmm, also what does this do to PXE booting. IIRC there is a (relatively low) limit on the size of the initrd loaded by pxelinux. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
