[criteria update] Rescue mode

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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On 07/27/2012 02:53 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Petr Schindler <pschindl at redhat.com> said:
>> Because of changes in new anaconda [1] and after short discussion
>> with Chris Lumens, I propose to remove this beta criterion [2]:
>> 
>> 'The rescue mode of the installer must be able to detect and
>> mount (read-write and read-only) LVM, encrypted, and RAID (BIOS,
>> hardware, and software) installations'
>> 
>> Reason (according to Chris): There's been no work done on rescue
>> mode and it is highly unlikely that it does anything at all right
>> now.
> 
> You've proposed removing rescue mode criteria from both alpha and
> beta; is there going to be any requirement for a functional rescue
> mode for this release?  That's a pretty critical thing to have
> completely missing from a release; things that occasionally happen
> such as a broken boot loader would render an install virtually
> unrecoverable for many users.
> 

Generic rescue images would still work for most problems but I'd tend
to agree: a final release with a non-working rescue mode is pretty
uncool and seems like a bad precedent.

Regards,
Bryn.


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