#5880: update to pv-grub aki used in EC2

Fedora Release Engineering rel-eng at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 8 12:48:47 UTC 2014


#5880: update to pv-grub aki used in EC2
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  Reporter:  mattdm           |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  task             |     Status:  new
 Milestone:  Fedora 21 Alpha  |  Component:  other
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                   |   Blocking:
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Comment (by arg):

 I worked with oddshocks on this a little bit yesterday, and wanted to
 capture my understanding of the situation here.  The current process for
 uploading Fedora AMIs is to write a _filesystem_ to an EBS volume (this is
 according to a conversation with dgilmore last night).  While the new
 pvgrub works with both unpartitioned and partitioned devices, the required
 grub.conf differs between these scenarios.  Our current kickstart (
 https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spin-kickstarts.git/tree/fedora-cloud-
 base.ks ) specifically writes "root (hd0)" in grub.conf, which will only
 work will a volume containing a filesystem.  If the volume contains a
 partitioned disk image, this must be "root (hd0,0)" instead.

 Since the "why" of this issue mentions GPT partitions and possibly
 separating /boot, I suspect that we want to change the F21 kickstart to
 use "root (hd0,0)" and start uploading full disk images as part of this.

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