Bug 208959 - Following the kickstart of a Paravirtualization Host, the grub.conf needs to be automatically modified to use the Xen kernel.
Summary: Following the kickstart of a Paravirtualization Host, the grub.conf needs to ...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Network
Classification: Retired
Component: RHN/Backend
Version: rhn500-satellite-beta
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Wregglesworth
QA Contact: Brandon Perkins
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: 208590 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 189917
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Reported: 2006-10-02 19:26 UTC by John Wregglesworth
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHN490
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-12-19 21:13:36 UTC
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Description John Wregglesworth 2006-10-02 19:26:06 UTC 
Description of problem: Right now, after a user kickstarts a machine to be a
paravirtualization host they need to modify the /etc/grub.conf file so that the
Xen kernel is used by default. We should do this automatically as part of the
paravirtualization host kickstart process, preferably in the %post section of
the kickstart.
Comment 1 John Wregglesworth 2006-10-02 19:48:32 UTC 
*** Bug 208590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 John Wregglesworth 2006-10-11 20:11:24 UTC 
Fixed in SVN.

Test Plan.
1. On a 500-beta satellite, sync the beta channels (if necessary).
2. Subscribe a suitable virt-host to the satellite.
3. If necessary, create a virtualization-host kickstart profile.
4. Kickstart the system to the virtualization-host kickstart profile.
5. After the kickstart, check /etc/grub.conf and make sure that default=0 and
that the first entry is the xen kernel.
Comment 3 Brandon Perkins 2006-11-17 03:56:56 UTC 
Verified.  Grub file now looks like:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2747.el5 
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen ro root=/dev/myvg/rootvol
        module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen.img
Comment 4 Brandon Perkins 2006-12-19 21:13:36 UTC 
Closed for RHN 500 Beta.
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