Bug 1018925 – initramfs created during disk image installation does not boot

Bug 1018925 - initramfs created during disk image installation does not boot

Summary:	initramfs created during disk image installation does not boot

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	David Lehman
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Reported:	2013-10-14 13:28 EDT by David Lehman
Modified:	2014-06-17 21:40 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	anaconda-19.31.28-1
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Last Closed:	2014-06-13 08:12:01 EDT
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Description David Lehman 2013-10-14 13:28:38 EDT

Description of problem:
The new default for initramfs generation is hostonly, which makes little sense when you are installing the OS to a disk image file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-19.20-2.el7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. patch anaconda to fix bug 955202
2. perform an installation to a disk image file on x86
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Actual results:
System fails to boot after installation is complete.

Expected results:
Newly installed system boots successfully.

Additional info:
It is also necessary to tell dracut to use /dev/disk/by-uuid/ symlinks to reference block devices instead of trying to resolve them to device node paths at initramfs creation time.

Comment 1 David Lehman 2013-10-14 13:29:48 EDT

I have a patch to fix this. I'll be sending it off for review today.

Comment 3 Jan Stodola 2013-11-15 07:00:28 EST

Retested with anaconda-19.31.34-1.el7, installation to a disk image was successful, it was possible to boot from the image in kvm.

Thanks, moving to VERIFIED.

Comment 4 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 08:12:01 EDT

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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