Re: loader/stage2 interaction

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:51 +0000, James Laska wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:32 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > - There shouldn't be any differences between booting off the network
> > and
> >   booting off media.
> > - loader should be moving to just doing what is required to fetch and
> >   mount the stage2 image.  This can perhaps include inferring an
> >   installation repo based on the location of the stage2 image, but the
> > 
> >   Problem:  If the user booted off a CD and we don't have any method
> >   configuration screen, the implied updates.img and product.img checks
> >   will never work.
> 
> Caveat: Thinking out loud ... insanity likely.
> 
> That's an interesting idea.  What about having two sets of media
> (iso's), one that contains stage#2 and packages, and another that's just
> used to get you to the "Method selection screen"?
> 
> This sounds familiar (aka boot.iso).  The difference here being we would
> never prompt you if you booted from DVD or disc1.  Would this make
> things simpler?

This sounds pretty much exactly like what we have now... :)

Jeremy