F20 rescue kernel broken on kernel update

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2013-12-25 at 15:28 -0700, Chris Murphy 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'd say file a bug against dracut (which implements the rescue kernel
generation stuff IIRC), CC kernel maintainers, and let 'em thrash it
out.
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