[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Seemingly divergent netboot/disklessrc and livecd/mayflower for initrd, init, etc...

[Bill Nottingham]

Bryan J Smith (bjs at redhat.com) said: 
> Understand that, but there is still a modification of NFS boot for
> Diskless/Stateless in RHEL 5, even if based on older developments.

Not sure what you mean by 'a modification'. The support *is there
in the stock initrd in RHEL 5*.

> > Attempting to catalog a list of network/storage module is a long-term
> > failure. We do a hack in anaconda by looking for modules that reference
> > certain needed symbols (register_net_device, register_block, etc.), but
> > it's still a hack.
> 
> And only in newer Fedora developments (post-RHEL 5) as I understand it?

Correct. It was a side effect of porting the installer to udev.

> > Honestly, I'm not sure what we really need right now is Yet Another
> > initrd project. There's talk of a new upstream one that can hopefully
> > be shared by multiple distros, but that's still a ways off from production.
> > In the meantime, it's probably better to just fix what's there.
> 
> Which means merging system-config-netboot approaches, its init script,
> etc... with mayflower for RHEL 5-specific details that do not have newer
> Fedora developments.

What specific features do you need?

Bill