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Re: loader/stage2 interaction



James Laska wrote:
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).

Did I miss something? I thought an objective was to have, say, an RHEL 5.0 boot disk that could install 5.1 or 5.2.

If one can boot a CD and request a different stage2 that's possible.



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