[Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 13:24 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 12:00:31PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 03:23:24PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski
> > -Szmek wrote:
> > 
> > > For majority of ro-at-boot setups, changing to rw would be the 
> > > best and the simplest
> > > solution. I don't think we should do that automatically (e.g. 
> > > through rpm macro),
> > > but instead encourage people to switch manually. I have no idea 
> > > what would
> > > be a good place to put this information though.
> > 
> > Good places would be the release notes and:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_21_-
> > .3E_Fedora_22_.28not_yet_relea
> > sed.29
> 
> On second though, where exactly is 'ro' coming from?
> On my system it comes from:
> 
> $ sudo grep ' ro ' /etc/grub.d/10_linux
>         ${linuxefi} ${rel_dirname}/${basename} 
> root=${linux_root_device_thisversion} ro ${args}
>         linux${sixteenbit} ${rel_dirname}/${basename} 
> root=${linux_root_device_thisversion} ro ${args}
> $ rpm -q grub2-tools
> grub2-tools-2.02-0.15.fc22.x86_64
> 
> Maybe it's enough to change it there?

That would only take effect when someone manually ran a grub2-mkconfig
. Fedora kernel updates only add a new entry to the file with grubby,
which does not pull in changes to the kernel parameters from the grub2
-mkconfig config files.
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