Live CD kernels

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:17:10PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:

> Can we see Hoary liveCDs with experimental kernels on them?  Normal
> users will just boot, but a submenu to grub to supply experimental
> kernels would allow a longer release test cycle for kernels even though
> they won't be supported until at least Hoary+1.  This would be good for QA.

Sure, this is pretty simple to do.

Assuming that the kernels are binary-compatible, just copy vmlinuz into
/install.  If you need additional modules, you can add them to the initrd.

If the kernels are not binary-compatible, you'll also need to replace the
module udebs on the CD with new ones, and regenerate the Packages and
Release files, but it's still fairly straightforward.

Let me know if you need more details.  It would be great to have this
documented in the wiki as well.

> This should just be considered as an opportunity task, not a primary or
> secondary priority; considerations for security hardening aren't going to
> be looked at any further until AFTER Hoary's release, so there are more
> urgent matters for Ubuntu's developers to handle for the timebeing.

I see no need to divert resources from the release effort for this; anyone
who is interested in the community could pick up this task.

-- 
 - mdz