Bug 658386

Summary:	Patch to allow mbkernel and mbargs to be read from /etc/sysconfig/kernel
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	W. Michael Petullo <mike>
Component:	grubby	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	bcl, pjones
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Description W. Michael Petullo 2010-11-30 08:38:10 UTC

Description of problem:
New-kernel-pkg has support for mbkernel and mbargs. However, there is no way to set these variables other than by using command line options. This does not support a single kernel which boots both on bare metal and from within a hypervisor such as Xen (upcoming Xen kernels will have this capability). I have attached a patch that reads mbkernel and mbargs from /etc/sysconfig/kernel:HYPERVISOR and :HYPERVISOR_ARGS, respectively. The allows a single kernel package to be installed to boot with or without a hypervisor.

This is a requirement for the Xen Pvops Dom0 feature that will be proposed for Fedora 15 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Git d3ca5734c2ca2f3dce2591d06ed609b9bfee756a

Comment 1 W. Michael Petullo 2010-12-21 05:34:23 UTC

I'm not sure why this was filed twice.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 658387 ***