There has been an on going issue with installing grub on an XFS
partition - anaconda will hang at the installing boot loader stage as
grub 'spins'.
The attached patch for 'booty' works round this problem by remounting
the XFS file system that contains /boot as read-only and then as
read-write before running the grub install command.
This patch replaces the current XFS freeze/thaw work round that fails to
work (a lot) more often than not.
James Pearson
*** ./bootloaderInfo.py.dist 2005-05-11 16:41:51.000000000 +0100
--- ./bootloaderInfo.py 2005-10-06 16:45:11.719793730 +0100
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*** 54,71 ****
isys.sync()
isys.sync()
! # and xfs is even more "special" (#117968)
if fsset.isValidXFS(dev):
! rhpl.executil.execWithRedirect( "/usr/sbin/xfs_freeze",
! ["/usr/sbin/xfs_freeze", "-f", mntpt],
! stdout = "/dev/tty5",
! stderr = "/dev/tty5",
! root = instRoot)
! rhpl.executil.execWithRedirect( "/usr/sbin/xfs_freeze",
! ["/usr/sbin/xfs_freeze", "-u", mntpt],
! stdout = "/dev/tty5",
! stderr = "/dev/tty5",
! root = instRoot)
class BootyNoKernelWarning:
def __init__ (self, value=""):
--- 54,85 ----
isys.sync()
isys.sync()
! # for XFS make sure the data is _really_ sync'd to disk by remounting
! # /boot first read-only and then read-write - idea from:
! # http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=112096901910385&w=2
! # James Pearson MPC 29-sep-2005
if fsset.isValidXFS(dev):
! import _isys
! fstype = "xfs"
! device = "/dev/%s" % dev
! location = "%s%s" % (instRoot, mntpt)
! readOnly = 1
! bindMount = 0
! remount = 1
! log("remounting %s on %s read-only" % (device, location))
! # remount the boot partition as read-only
! rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly, bindMount, remount)
!
! # if the remount fails, then we should really do something else e.g.
! # sleep for a few minutes? - for the time being we'll just log the
! # return
! log("remount return: %s (None == OK)" % rc)
!
! # now remount as read-write
! readOnly = 0
! log("remounting %s on %s read-write" % (device, location))
! rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly, bindMount, remount)
! log("remount return: %s (None == OK)" % rc)
class BootyNoKernelWarning:
def __init__ (self, value=""):
