[Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts/f21] dd extlinux mbr during post as temporary workaround for bug #1147998

[Matthew Miller]

commit 58b06553fadb53c95f83915e81db1379e3dc5f36
Author: Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 14 16:00:42 2014 -0400

    dd extlinux mbr during post as temporary workaround for bug #1147998

 fedora-cloud-atomic.ks       |    9 +++++++++
 fedora-cloud-base.ks         |    8 ++++++++
 fedora-cloud-bigdata.ks      |    7 +++++++
 fedora-cloud-experimental.ks |    8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/fedora-cloud-atomic.ks b/fedora-cloud-atomic.ks
index 42fed30..2680b19 100644
--- a/fedora-cloud-atomic.ks
+++ b/fedora-cloud-atomic.ks
@@ -131,6 +131,15 @@ echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
 # Note that running rpm recreates the rpm db files which aren't needed/wanted
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
+
+# This is a temporary workaround for
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147998>
+# where sfdisk seems to be messing up the mbr.
+# Long-term fix is to address this in anaconda directly and remove this.
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015931>
+dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/vda
+
+
 echo "Zeroing out empty space."
 # This forces the filesystem to reclaim space from deleted files
 dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/zeros || :
diff --git a/fedora-cloud-base.ks b/fedora-cloud-base.ks
index 1cbfdc4..a61e82e 100644
--- a/fedora-cloud-base.ks
+++ b/fedora-cloud-base.ks
@@ -194,6 +194,14 @@ echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
 
+# This is a temporary workaround for
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147998>
+# where sfdisk seems to be messing up the mbr.
+# Long-term fix is to address this in anaconda directly and remove this.
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015931>
+dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/vda
+
+
 echo "Fixing SELinux contexts."
 touch /var/log/cron
 touch /var/log/boot.log
diff --git a/fedora-cloud-bigdata.ks b/fedora-cloud-bigdata.ks
index b8315bb..1a9ef6a 100644
--- a/fedora-cloud-bigdata.ks
+++ b/fedora-cloud-bigdata.ks
@@ -200,6 +200,13 @@ echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
 # Note that running rpm recreates the rpm db files which aren't needed/wanted
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
+# This is a temporary workaround for
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147998>
+# where sfdisk seems to be messing up the mbr.
+# Long-term fix is to address this in anaconda directly and remove this.
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015931>
+dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/vda
+
 
 echo "Fixing SELinux contexts."
 touch /var/log/cron
diff --git a/fedora-cloud-experimental.ks b/fedora-cloud-experimental.ks
index b865c4c..fb902a5 100644
--- a/fedora-cloud-experimental.ks
+++ b/fedora-cloud-experimental.ks
@@ -192,6 +192,14 @@ echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
 
+# This is a temporary workaround for
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147998>
+# where sfdisk seems to be messing up the mbr.
+# Long-term fix is to address this in anaconda directly and remove this.
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015931>
+dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/vda
+
+
 echo "Fixing SELinux contexts."
 touch /var/log/cron
 touch /var/log/boot.log