Hello, First of all, nice solution for your issue and thank you for sharing it here. IMHO it could be really valuable for others. The "Automated rescue" looks to me like an interesting idea. It could be enhancement of the existing "rescue" kickstart command. Unfortunately, we are swamped with other work right now but we will look on that in the future. Please file an RFE bug to bugzilla and write there how do you think this feature should work. It will be better for addressing future questions and implementing the best solution. Jirka On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 09:57 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the stock Fedora 25 OS installer as a "service OS", just > because it is convenient and I do not have to build my own. Should > something bad happen to a host in my automation system, I just boot > the > host into the Fedora installer's kernel/initramfs over network and > have > a decent rescue environment. > > The Fedora OS installer is based on Anaconda. It can find and mount > the > "sysroot" to "/mnt/sysimage", which is also very convenient. > > Now, I wanted my "service OS" to automatically do this - find the > sysroot and properly mount it without any questions asked. I could > not > find the "right" way of doing this, and ended up with a hacky trick. > > I am sharing the trick in case someone else will be googling for it > in > the future. And of course I'd appreciate better ideas. > > First of all, boot anaconda into the rescue mode, by adding > 'inst.rescue' to kernel boot parameters. > > I also have a bunch of 'inst.ks' and 'inst.stage2' and dracut > networking parameters. > > And yes, I have a very small minimal KS file too, which only > configures > repositories and some network-related stuff. Does not do anything > about > partitions or packages. > > Then I put this to my %pre in order to make anaconda proceed with > mounting the sysroot: > > tmux send-keys -t anaconda -- 1 C-m > > It is hackish, but works. It basically sends key "1" to anaconda, so > anaconda selects the "Continue" choice, and proceeds with mounting > sysroot. > > This is not the first time I use anaconda's tmux terminal to achieve > my > goals with anaconda. E.g., I use it for capturing anaconda's VGA > output > remotely. > > So thanks for using tmux in anaconda - very handy! > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
