[Mageia-dev] require help to understand stage1/stage2/rescue source files

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 21 oktober 2011 00:12:00 schreef Pascal Terjan:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:12, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
> > Op donderdag 20 oktober 2011 19:11:07 schreef Pascal Terjan:
> >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 17:41, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
> >> > oh and can i test this rescue.sqfs somehow (without fucking up work
> >> > system) or need i build an iso?
> >> 
> >> You can place it somewhere, for example accessible over ftp or http in
> >> a directory called <something>/install/stage2, and boot an install
> >> image in a vm
> > 
> > so, then i can just use any boot.iso to do this? or does that boot.iso
> > need to be built especially for this? i remember that i once tried to
> > start install from older boot.iso and it didn't work...
> 
> it should

thanks alot for the assistance, i was able to make it work:

see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1023