Bug 541081

Summary:	/bin/uname missing from initial ramdisk
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michael Madore <michael.madore>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Martin Gracik <mgracik>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	12	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, dmach, msivak, vanmeeuwen+fedora, wnefal+redhatbugzilla
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Description Michael Madore 2009-11-24 22:39:49 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 Fedora/3.5.3-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.3

I have a kickstart file which has a %pre section similar to to following:

%pre

ARCH=`uname -m`
if [ "$ARCH" == "i686" ]; then
   Do something specific to i686
fi

This no longer works when I PXE boot Fedora 12 because /bin/uname no longer exists.  I looked at upd-instroot and I see that uname is only included for s390.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. PXE boot the system into Fedora 12 rescue mode on a system with empty hard disk.
2. Run uname from the shell

Actual Results:  
uname: command not found

Expected Results:  
The architecture should be returned.

If this is by design, I will use an alternative method determine ARCH.

Comment 1 Michael Madore 2010-06-01 13:50:30 UTC

uname is still missing in Fedora 13

Comment 2 David Cantrell 2010-07-09 21:45:59 UTC

This is by design.

uname -v == awk '{ print $3; }' /proc/version