Bryan J Smith (bjs(a)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