Once upon a time, Brian C. Lane <bcl(a)redhat.com> said:
I tried :) It ends up that there are users who boot the install.img
with
fips=1 which means it needs to be present. It was removed for a bit, and
then I reverted the removal:
https://github.com/weldr/lorax/commit/3c745aed8d535cae8430161192e0a1505c2...
Ah. Well, it was worth a try. Since /boot and /usr/lib/modules are on
the same filesystem (in the particular case of the installer rootfs),
could they at least be hardlinked? Although theoretically compressing
it should save that space I guess.
I still might play around with some overlay or bind-mount trickeration
to remove duplication from the boot ISO and rootfs. Seems like that
should still pass muster... but I know zilch about FIPS mode.
And there's still the ISO duplication between images/pxelinux and
isolinux vmlinuz+initrd.img. I think the initrd.img might have been
different at one point, but it seems like that was a very long time ago.
--
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>