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My review of Fedora 9 Preview

My review of Fedora 9 Preview

Posted Apr 20, 2008 17:43 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: My review of Fedora 9 Preview by dowdle
Parent article: Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

I've also got the live "CD" on a USB device with persistent storage. As you point out, it would be nice to find out how to make the updated kernel boot, though.

My guess is that the updated kernel is installed in the wrong place and has to be copied to vmlinuz0 in the syslinux directory, but I haven't tried that yet.


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My review of Fedora 9 Preview

Posted Apr 21, 2008 22:47 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

A followup on the above: it should be possible to replace the kernel and the initrd from the /syslinux directory to update the stick, but the problem is that the initrd installed by "yum upgrade" in /boot is the wrong kind of initrd for a live "CD": it's only half the size and is missing a number of things. So a replacement initrd would be needed to go with the new kernel.

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