anaconda performance thoughts [Re: ANNOUNCE: Severn Test 2 Anaconda Updates Image Available]

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Oct 2 22:41:10 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:30, Mark Heslep wrote:
> Yes same here.  And in an attempt to be even lazier, is it absolutely 
> necessary that the boot.iso image be non-compatible with every following 
> release?*  

Yes, it is completely 100% necessary.  It contains the kernel and some
of the modules are on the boot CD and some are contained on the second
stage.  You can't load modules compiled for one kernel on another and
actually expect things to work (and without the second stage modules,
you don't have useful things like ext3)

Not to mention changes within the loader which require corresponding
second stage changes. 

Jeremy





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