built-in DVD mediacheck is gone

[Brian C. Lane]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:50:34PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 23:02 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 05:47 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> > > Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 20:24 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
> > > > > The DVD no longer offers to do a mediacheck (I haven't checked the
> > > > > behavior of the live images). Is this reported?
> > > > 
> > > > A quick search of bugz.fedoraproject.org/anaconda doesn't show anything
> > > > relevant, so I'm guessing 'no' - can you report it? Thanks!
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806500
> > > 
> > > I can't find any blocker criteria for built-in mediacheck. I think it should
> > > exist at least in Final, though - in fact I think the netinst images should also
> > > have it although they haven't for a while.
> > 
> > Yeah, I think maybe we had a proposal for it? Check the archives...
> 
> So we actually added a criterion to final, but it doesn't exactly cover
> this: "If there is embedded checksum on ISO media, it must be correct."
> Maybe we want to change that to require mediacheck to be present.

If you pass 'check' on the cmdline dracut will run a mediacheck. We may
want to add a menu option for that under Troubleshooting.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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