suggestion: rescue boot extension

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jun 2 22:05:37 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 23:51 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote:
> Ok, a mini-Fedora that lives entirely in a subdir of the boot partition,
> containing an application for managing grub.conf and other things.
> Things it should be able to do:
> 
>       * Manage those yum-integrated btrfs snapshots.
>       * Download Fedora and other distro pxeboot and live images and
>         stick them in grub.conf.
>       * Change default boot menu entry, edit entries etc.
> 
> Plus a terminal and various tools.

If we do this, the default /boot size should certainly be increased by
an amount equal to the size of image.
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