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DESIGN: Let's use our own kernels

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Colin Walters 2011-10-10 18:39:06 -04:00
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@ -71,15 +71,13 @@ These live in the same root filesystem as your regular distribution
(Note though, the root partition should be reasonably sized, or
hopefully you've used just one big partition).
We allow booting into these roots via a modified dracut - if you have
this system installed, at boot time it shows a prompt like:
You should be able to boot into one of these roots. Since hacktree
lives inside a distro created partition, a tricky part here is that we
need to know how to interact with the installed distribution's grub.
This is an annoying but tractable problem.
[0] Default root
[1] /gnomeos/root-3.0-opt
[2] /gnomeos/root-3.2-opt
If you pick [1] or [2], then instead of calling switch_root for /,
it uses the selected root.
Hacktree will allow efficiently parallel installing and downloading OS
builds.
== The recipe set ==
@ -190,8 +188,6 @@ we then diff?
If the script fails, we can roll back the update, or drop to a shell
if interactive.
== Booting ==
== Local modifications ==
A key point of this whole endeavour is that we want developers to be