Bug 1260260

Summary:	Can't install "make rpm"'ed kernel on Live CD
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component:	grubby	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	bcl, pjones
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Description Bastien Nocera 2015-09-05 09:36:38 UTC

After creating a kernel from the upstream sources with "make rpm", I wasn't able to install it on a live CD despite following the instructions at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Kernel_updates

The error was:
dracut module 'dmsquash-live' cannot be found or installed.
mkinitrd failed

This is despite mentioning that dracut shouldn't default to hostonly, and that it should force include the dmsquash-live dracut module.

This is caused by the call in /sbin/installkernel which calls dracut through new-kernel-pkg with:
new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --dracut --hostonly --depmod --install --kernel-name $KERNEL_NAME $KERNEL_VERSION
This should instead read:
new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod --install --kernel-name $KERNEL_NAME $KERNEL_VERSION

So that dracut actually follows its configuration file, and won't result in any changes of behaviour on Fedora 19 and older, as hostonly is the default.

Comment 1 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 13:43:39 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

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