Bug 969521 - livecd-iso-to-disk produces unbootable media for EFI computers
Summary: livecd-iso-to-disk produces unbootable media for EFI computers
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: livecd-tools
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: RejectedBlocker RejectedFreezeException
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-05-31 16:41 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2013-06-12 03:32 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: livecd-tools-19.4-1.fc19
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-06-12 03:32:52 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
bash -x livecd-iso-to-disk (12.18 KB, text/plain)
2013-05-31 16:43 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details

Description Chris Murphy 2013-05-31 16:41:40 UTC
Description of problem:
livecd-iso-to-disk produces an unbootable USB stick, that fails to boot with error: file '/isolinux/vmlinuz0' not found. The media's grub.cfg uses a path for the kernel that doesn't exist.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
livecd-tools-19.3-1.fc19
Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-Beta-1.iso

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install livecd-tools
2. Run command:
livecd-iso-to-disk --noverify --format --efi --overlay-size-mb 1000 /dev/sr0 /dev/sdb
3. Reboot booting from the created USB media
4. Choose the default boot option in the grub menu or wait for timeout.

Actual results:
error: file '/isolinux/vmlinuz0' no found.
error: you need to load the kernel first.
Press any key to continue...

Expected results:
For the computer to boot without this error.

Additional info:

For whatever reason they grub.cfg is looking in /isolinux, meanwhile the kernel and initrd are actually in /syslinux. If the grub.cfg is modified to look in /syslinux, then the system boots.

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2013-05-31 16:43:54 UTC
Created attachment 755320 [details]
bash -x livecd-iso-to-disk

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2013-05-31 16:46:28 UTC
From the bash -x, the problem isn't with the grub.cfg, it's just copying the existing media's grub.cfg which references /isolinux; and on actual media the files are actually in /isolinux. But livecd-iso-to-disk is copying the files into /syslinux not /isolinux, and not updating the grub.cfg

+ cp /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/boot.cat /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/efiboot.img /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/initrd0.img /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/isolinux.bin /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/macboot.img /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/memtest /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/vesamenu.c32 /media/srctmp.CkrJ54/isolinux/vmlinuz0 /media/tgttmp.LEWuQm/syslinux

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2013-05-31 17:43:15 UTC
Proposing as final blocker, Beta criterion:

"All release-blocking images must boot in their supported configurations.
...
Release-blocking live and dedicated installer images must boot when written to optical media of an appropriate size (if applicable) and when written to a USB stick with any of the officially supported methods."

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Beta_Release_Criteria#Release-blocking_images_must_boot

Comment 4 Brian Lane 2013-06-01 00:49:02 UTC
Looks like the patch for bug 962039 also fixed this one.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-06-01 01:08:36 UTC
livecd-tools-19.4-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/livecd-tools-19.4-1.fc19

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-06-01 17:52:36 UTC
Package livecd-tools-19.4-1.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing livecd-tools-19.4-1.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-9827/livecd-tools-19.4-1.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Adam Williamson 2013-06-03 18:08:53 UTC
Discussed at 2013-06-03 blocker review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2013-06-03/f19final-blocker-review-2.2013-06-03-16.00.log.txt . This seems like an obvious blocker, but in fact, it's pretty rare for people to be writing an F19 USB stick from F19 especially right around release time: what's much more common is to do it from F17/F18. And there's no real benefit to fixing this in the frozen package set; even if you are writing an F19 USB stick from F19, you can easily install updates before doing so. So this was rejected as a blocker and a freeze exception issue simply because the F19 use case is not that significant.

In practice it's very likely that the fix will go stable before freeze anyway, so this becomes a bit academic.

Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2013-06-03 18:10:38 UTC
Whoops.

Comment 9 Brian Lane 2013-06-03 18:37:41 UTC
The change only appears to be in the F19 version of df. If it shows up in previous releases I'll back port this.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-06-12 03:32:52 UTC
livecd-tools-19.4-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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