Grub vs Grub2 in Fedora 16 EC2 kickstarts

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:45:47AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I am attempting to actually use the Cloud kickstart files found here:
> 
>   http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=cloud-kickstarts.git
> 
> To re-create the official Fedora cloud images with some customizations.
> 
> AFAICT though, either the kickstarts, or appliance-creator, or both are
> broken, due to some grub vs grub2 confusion:
> 
> # appliance-creator --name=f16-x86_64-cloud --version 20120224 --release=1 --checksum -c /home/berrange/fedora-16-x86_64-ec2.ks
> ['/']
> Package grub is obsoleted by grub2, trying to install 1:grub2-1.99-12.fc16.x86_64 instead

First the 'grub' line in the kickstart should have been 'grub2', otherwise
even though yum installed grub2 due to obsoletes, appliance-creator thinks
grub1 is used.


> Unable to create appliance : grub not installed : /var/tmp/imgcreate-0ZRJWd/install_root/usr/share/grub/i386-pc/e2fs_stage1_5 not found

Second, the kickstart *must* contain

  part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 --ondisk sda

Otherwise you'll get further errors like


/sbin/grub2-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/mapper/loop0p1 failed.
Try with --recheck.
If the problem persists please report this together with the output of "/sbin/grub2-probe --device-map="/boot/grub2/device.map" --target=fs -v /boot/grub2" to <bug-grub at gnu.org>
Unable to create appliance : Unable to install grub2 bootloader


Daniel
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