Re: loader/stage2 interaction

[James Laska <jlaska redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:45 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > 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... :)

Yeah ... I'm still struggling on how/if it's different to be honest :)

Howabout ...

If we boot from media that contains the installation source, we should
use it (no questions asked).

If we boot from media that doesn't contain a stage2 ||
installation_source, we prompt the user or honor cmdline arguments.

Which I guess means the only change from current behavior might be
dropping support for the cmdline option "askmethod" entirely and having
that decision be based on the presence of an ondisk stage2.img?

Thanks,
James

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