[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] use isolinux instead of grub

Jonathan Roberts jonathan.roberts.uk at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 22 19:54:07 UTC 2007


On 22/02/07, Thomas Chung <tchung at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > While using grub works for CD booting in a lot of cases, it also seems
> > to have problems on some hardware.  isolinux is what we've always used
> > everywhere else for CD booting, so it probably makes sense to be
> > consistent with the live CD.[1]  Attached moves to using isolinux and
> > the vesamenu + splash bits that are used for anaconda.
> >
> > Probably worth looking at making things more generic with things like
> > the location of the splash image, but this change doesn't actually make
> > that a worse problem, per se.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > [1] ... since I'm quite happy leaving my days of bootloader debugging
> > behind me :-)
> >
>
> Will isolinux support DVD booting?
> Regards,

I believe so. It's used on the Knoppix live DVD(?)...

Jon




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