On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:53 -0400, David Dillow wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 20:32 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 16:50 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: > > > Today I updated http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/dracut/ and the package > > > README and TODO files. > > > The next days, I will add iSCSI support and test various network setups. > > > > Cool. I ahve been working on some test suite improvements (lvm on > > cryptroot on software raid5), and am working on making dracut actually > > work in that configuration. I will post patches to the mailing list > > once it works without manual hackery. > > > > Next stop, all that over iscsi. Should be fun. > > Glad to see this project isn't dead...
I had a sudden attack of Real Life -- my daughter learned to crawl, so the tiny amounts of free time I once had vanished. > I've got a few boot-off-of-NFS patches together that use DHCP options to > find the root, and let it be overridden by the command line. I've also > got a piece that lets it boot over a bonded network. I'll try to circle > back to those and post them before Memorial Day (May 25h). Cool. Can you also hack up a makefile target that tests it using kvm and/or qemu? I suppose I should post my more generic test suite improvements (making kvm/qemu work no matter what it is named on any given distro) to give you something a little easier to build with. > These all trigger off of udev events, though I recall there was some > discussion about whether that was the way to go or not. In many ways, > they are just polish on some of the network patches that have been > posted here before (by you two, IIRC). I don't think we ever finally decided one way or the other, the conversations kind of died off without reaching a conclusion. > Dave > -- Victor Lowther RHCE# 805008539634727 LPIC-2# LPI000140019 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
