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Bug 807198

Summary: grub.cfg is empty after installation (using RHEL6.3-20120313.2)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Xiaoqing Wei <xwei>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.3CC: juzhang, michen, shuang
Target Milestone: rc   
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Last Closed: 2012-07-03 19:29:00 UTC Type: ---
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tar xf log.tar none

Description Xiaoqing Wei 2012-03-27 09:24:21 UTC
Description of problem:
grub.cfg is empty after installation (using RHEL6.3-20120313.2)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-13.21.161-1.el6.x86_64
shipped with RHEL6.3-20120313.2

How reproducible:
2 / 2

Steps to Reproduce:
1. perform an url installation, ks will be attached. (here i am installing a kvm guest)
2./home/autotest-devel/client/tests/kvm/qemu -name 'vm1' -nodefaults -vga std -chardev socket,id=qmp_monitor_id_qmpmonitor1,path=/tmp/monitor-qmpmonitor1-20120327-145238-Kpwk,server,nowait -mon chardev=qmp_monitor_id_qmpmonitor1,mode=control -chardev socket,id=serial_id_20120327-145238-Kpwk,path=/tmp/serial-20120327-145238-Kpwk,server,nowait -device isa-serial,chardev=serial_id_20120327-145238-Kpwk -device ich9-usb-uhci1,id=usb1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -drive file='/home/autotest-devel/client/tests/kvm/images/RHEL-Server-6.3-64-virtio.qcow2',index=0,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,media=disk,cache=none,boot=off,snapshot=off,readonly=off,format=qcow2,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=id8Jw46f,mac=9a:e5:b9:fa:eb:19,id=ndev00id8Jw46f,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -netdev tap,id=id8Jw46f,vhost=on,fd=21 -m 16384 -smp 4,cores=2,threads=1,sockets=2 -cpu 'Conroe' -drive file='/home/autotest-devel/client/tests/kvm/images/rhel63-64/ks.iso',index=2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,media=cdrom,boot=off,snapshot=off,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -device usb-tablet,id=usb-tablet1,bus=usb1.0 -kernel '/home/autotest-devel/client/tests/kvm/images/rhel63-64/vmlinuz' -append 'ks=cdrom nicdelay=60 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0' -initrd '/home/autotest-devel/client/tests/kvm/images/rhel63-64/initrd.img' -spice port=8000,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -rtc base=utc,clock=host,driftfix=slew -M rhel6.3.0 -boot order=cdn,once=d,menu=off    -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -no-shutdown -enable-kvm
3.
  
Actual results:
guest unable to boot, need to point out the kernel/initramfs path.

Expected results:
guest boot without needing type in kernel/initramfs path manually.

Additional info:

host is installed using same tree, no such issue.

Comment 1 Xiaoqing Wei 2012-03-27 09:27:38 UTC
Created attachment 573003 [details]
guest ks

Comment 2 Xiaoqing Wei 2012-03-27 09:28:04 UTC
Created attachment 573004 [details]
host ks

Comment 3 Xiaoqing Wei 2012-03-27 09:29:17 UTC
btw, the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg inside guest after installation is also empty

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2012-03-27 20:25:49 UTC
Please attach /tmp/anaconda.log, /tmp/program.log, and /tmp/syslog from the end of this installation to the bug.

Comment 6 Xiaoqing Wei 2012-03-28 05:03:18 UTC
Created attachment 573225 [details]
tar xf log.tar

it's not always reproducible, guest able to boot this time.

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2012-05-03 05:11:33 UTC
Since RHEL 6.3 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 8 Dave Cantrell 2012-07-03 19:29:00 UTC
Closing per comment #6.