Re: [PATCH] Don't allow the rootfs on live installs to not match (#493206, #492727)

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Thursday, April 02 2009, Chris Lumens said:
> > Tested now and it works and keeps people from getting into this situation...
> > 
> > Ensure that with live installs that the type of the rootfs matches what we
> > need it to.  This used to be done behind the user's back in the livecd
> > code, but it's probably better to handle more generally like this
> 
> I think this is fine for now, but I wonder if we should start following
> what the comment in backend.py says and handle these special cases a
> little more elegantly.  I can't think of anything off the top of my head
> though.

Yeah, I spent some time trying to come up with something a little bit
nicer but failed and so finally just did this to get something working.
As apparently it's a case that a lot of people have tried to do!

Jeremy