ec2 images and grub2

[Dennis Gilmore]

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El Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:47:09 -0400
Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> escribió:
> As I understand it, there's no grub in the ec2 instances because
> grub2 was not happy with the xen paravirtualized devices. And also
> it's not necessary.
> 
> Our instructions for OpenStack here
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova#Downloading_Existing_Images
> have a little script for injecting syslinux as a bootloader so the
> images work with openstack.
> 
> A notable drawback is that kernel updates don't actually take effect
> without manual intervention. Plus, of course, if we don't start doing
> this ourselves, it means an extra annoying step for everyone.
> 
> It looks to me that more recent grub2 is patched to deal with the
> situation -- see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/623609 and code
> in current grub-2.00/util/getroot.c.
> 
> Is there anything I'm missing here, and, what's the best way forward?
> (Grub in everything? Grub in images on mirrors, skip it in ec2?)
> 

I was planning to look at hvm images for f18 which would require grub2
be installed.

Dennis
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