Bug 456559
| Summary: | anaconda: i386 xen installer images creation | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mark McLoughlin <markmc> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Mark McLoughlin <markmc> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, katzj, orion, xen-maint | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-09-10 10:49:25 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 442569, 446447 | ||||||
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Description
Mark McLoughlin
2008-07-24 17:21:08 UTC
Hrmm -- the fact that it's in the PAE kernel for x86 adds a couple of wrinkles 1) We don't install the PAE kernel unless you have memory above 4 gigs. 2) We don't ever use the PAE kernel as the installer kernel, instead using the i586 kernel in Fedora, i686 kernel in RHEL Fortunately the '.treeinfo' file could help us here. Currently it says: [images-i386] kernel = images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd = images/pxeboot/initrd.img boot.iso = images/boot.iso [images-xen] kernel = images/xen/vmlinuz initrd = images/xen/initrd.img We could have the 'images/xen' directory contain the PAE variant of 'kernel', or have a new images/pxeboot/vmlinux-PAE and 'images/pxeboot/initrd-PAE.img' and make the 'images-xen' section refer to those. Since F8 virt-install and virt-manager will both look at the $URL/.treeinfo file when picking the kernel for guest installs. Yeah, but we still then have to have double sets of images lying around which is unfortunate. And we have to switch the logic which does kernel-xen to instead do kernel-PAE. Which means that we don't really gain much in the way of simplifying logic or life. Marking as blocking the beta - whatever we decide to do should be sorted out then for testing. Created attachment 313624 [details]
mk-images-replace-kernel-xen-with-pv_ops-kernel.patch
Here's a mk-images patch which I'm still testing
I've also got a bunch of small patches to kill off obsolete xen hacks in anaconda proper; I'll send those out tomorrow
*** Bug 458164 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Applied, thanks *** Bug 458164 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Seems to be working fine on x86_64 now, but i386 doesn't have .treeinfo/[images-xen] or images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-PAE Looking at e.g.: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20080812/logs/i386.log Wrote /tmp/treebuild.20080812/output/development/i386/os/images/pxeboot/efiboot.img (39159844k free) Building stage2.img I'd expect to it to say "Building initrd-PAE.img" before going onto building stage2.img I can't see anything obviously wrong with the code and because of bug #458541, I can't easily debug it either Don't know what's changed but: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20080910/logs/i386.log shows: Building initrd-PAE.img and: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/.treeinfo contains: [images-xen] initrd = images/pxeboot/initrd-PAE.img kernel = images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-PAE |