On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 2:10 PM Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:22:27 +0200
Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:26:21 +0200
> Vendula Poncova <vponcova@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:56 PM Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > there is a request for not installing the PReP partition on PPC
> > > system that don't really require it in bug 1303219 [1]. I've spend
> > > some time working on it and I think I have the solution, see [2]
> > > for details. Because the testing requires a bare-metal Power
> > > machine I'm now thinking how to allow testing it with the
> > > community in the least intrusive way. Right now my plan is to
> > > have the anaconda PR merged and use an updates.img for the
> > > corresponding blivet change. This way anaconda itself should work
> > > as before and only when used with the updates.img it should
> > > change the behaviour. What do you think?
> > >
> > >
> > Hello Dan,
> > the changes for anaconda seem to be safe and reasonable, so I think
> > we could merge them if you want to.
> >
> > As Jirka suggested, it is also possible to create one updates image
> > with anaconda and blivet changes. I can help you with that.
>
> finally I've managed to test both physical PowewNV hardware and a KVM
> guest and the is no problem in the installer. KVM guest installation
> works as before. The bare metal PowerNV one prints a error during the
> "bootloader installation" phase, but succeeds anyway. The problem is
> in grub due
> "grub2-install: error: the chosen partition is not a PReP partition."
> which will need fixing there by loosening that requirement.
I think I have a solution for this problem as well. There is already a
request to loosen the check in grub2 [1], but IMHO a more appropriate
solution is to skip installing the grub binaries in anaconda and let
anaconda write only the grub config. Which could be achieved by
introducing of a PowerNVGRUB2 class with an empty install() method.
That sounds good to me.
Vendy
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1723425
Dan
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