Simplified live CD infrastructure
Registered by
Matt Zimmerman
As of Ubuntu 5.10, the Ubuntu live CD bootstraps itself using the installer machinery. While this was convenient for purposes of maintainability, it has disadvantages in performance, interactivity, complexity and aesthetics.
It should be replaced with a simple initramfs which handles the following tasks non-interactively:
Progress display using usplash
Hardware detection (using standard, shared Ubuntu mechanisms)
Location and mounting of the live media
Initialization of the live filesystem
Transfer of control to the live filesystem
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Colin Watson
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Tollef Fog Heen
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for dapper
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Matt Zimmerman
- Completed by
- Matt Zimmerman
Whiteboard
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Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
