new Release Criterion proposal: kernel+initrd boot

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Apr 17 16:24:05 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 08:42 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:08:04PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 10:11 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > 
> > > > [1] "The installer must boot (if appropriate) and run on all primary
> > > > architectures, with all system firmware types that are common on
> > > > those architectures, from default live image, DVD, and boot.iso
> > > > install media"
> > > 
> > > If there are no further objections I'll put it into Alpha criteria tomorrow.
> > 
> > I'm okay with it, but I'm CCing bcl to give him a chance to object if
> > anaconda team feels that supporting PXE in Alpha is unnecessarily
> > ambitious...
> 
> Yes, I think Alpha is too early to require PXE to work. I'm fine with
> Beta. In general I think we need to be fairly loose with Anaconda and
> Alpha -- as long as there is some way to boot the installer I'm happy.
> We currently don't see alot of installer testing in rawhide so the
> period before Alpha is too short to expect everything to be working.

That sounds reasonable to me. Kamil, do you hate making it Beta?
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