F20 rescue kernel broken on kernel update

[Chris Murphy]

On Dec 25, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:

> Once a 4th kernel is to be installed, yum starts removing old kernels. Perfectly normal.
> 
> However, it removed the original kernel that was installed, which was 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64, and is also the one the rescue kernel is based on. Upon removing 3.11.10, it removed /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 which apparently breaks the rescue kernel because startup is halted when attempting to mount /boot/efi, which on my system is formatted hfsplus (due to it being a Mac) and the hfsplus kernel module is apparently not in the initramfs, and obviously can no longer be found in /lib/modules either.
> 
> So this seems rather broken still. Is this a yum bug, or a kernel rpm bug? It seems either the 3.11.10 kernel modules must be kept for all time (?) or it needs to create a new rescue kernel based on one of the remaining kernel versions.



I went ahead and filed a bug against the kernel since I think this might be a kernel packaging problem, and isn't correctly informing yum which of (I think) two behaviors should occur.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046510


Chris Murphy