Bug 546134

Summary:	appliance-creator gets the initramfs wrong when configuring grub
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Wade Brainerd <wadetb>
Component:	appliance-tools	Assignee:	David Huff <dhuff>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dhuff, virt-maint
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Description Wade Brainerd 2009-12-10 05:25:33 UTC

I'm using F11.   The kernel from @base uses an initramfs named like initramfs-<version>.rd.

When appliance-creator writes the grub configuration, it writes initrd-<version>.rd.  This causes the appliance to fail to boot.

The problem line is here:
http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=act.git;a=blob;f=appcreate/appliance.py;h=a6d3a4e04590ce179e01cefad90a18f5639efb4b;hb=HEAD#l234

Here is a patch which works around the issue, but I believe it will break users whose kernel uses a different naming scheme.  Is there a way to make this generic?  

--- /home/wadeb/appliance.py.orig	2009-12-09 23:39:25.267581292 -0500
+++ appliance.py	2009-12-09 23:40:34.171605565 -0500
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
             grub += "title %s (%s)\n" % (self.name, v)
             grub += "        root (hd0,%d)\n" % bootdevnum
             grub += "        kernel %s/vmlinuz-%s ro root=%s %s\n" % (prefix, v, rootdev, options)
-            grub += "        initrd %s/initrd-%s.img\n" % (prefix, v)
+            grub += "        initrd %s/initramfs-%s.img\n" % (prefix, v)
 
         logging.debug("Writing grub config %s/boot/grub/grub.conf" % self._instroot)
         cfg = open(self._instroot + "/boot/grub/grub.conf", "w")

Comment 1 David Huff 2009-12-10 14:43:06 UTC

Thanks for the report, I think the problem is that dracut introduced in F12 has a different naming scheme than the older mkinitrd. I will have to introduce some logic to test what version of mkinitrd was used.

I'll try to get to this next week when I plan on adding a couple of fixes to AC and doing a new build.

-D

Comment 2 David Huff 2010-02-09 18:54:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 551469 ***