On Thursday, September 22, 2016 4:07 AM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored(a)inbox.com> wrote:
My question is: how does the livecd know to install/use this kernel
as opposed to the Fedora distribution stock kernel?
The latest version is chosen, so your "custom" kernel needs to have a higher
version than the one available in the official Fedora repositories. It can be either
really be newer or if I'm not mistaking have a higher Epoch which is more important
than the version.
A workaround would be to create your own custom repository with all the required packages
including that kernel, and then using only that repository. I create it like this from my
local cache:
mkdir -p /tmp/local-repo/packages
ln -s /var/cache/dnf/*/packages/*.rpm /tmp/local-repo/packages/
createrepo_c -o /tmp/local-repo --skip-stat --changelog-limit 1 \
--compress-type gz --general-compress-type gz --checksum md5sum \
-g /var/cache/dnf/fedora-d02ca361e1b58501/repodata/gen/groups.xml \
/tmp/local-repo
Hope this helps,
Cristian Ciupitu