-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:47:09 -0400 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > As I understand it, there's no grub in the ec2 instances because > grub2 was not happy with the xen paravirtualized devices. And also > it's not necessary. > > Our instructions for OpenStack here > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova#Downloading_Existing_Images > have a little script for injecting syslinux as a bootloader so the > images work with openstack. > > A notable drawback is that kernel updates don't actually take effect > without manual intervention. Plus, of course, if we don't start doing > this ourselves, it means an extra annoying step for everyone. > > It looks to me that more recent grub2 is patched to deal with the > situation -- see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/623609 and code > in current grub-2.00/util/getroot.c. > > Is there anything I'm missing here, and, what's the best way forward? > (Grub in everything? Grub in images on mirrors, skip it in ec2?) > I was planning to look at hvm images for f18 which would require grub2 be installed. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCJmyoACgkQkSxm47BaWfeXMwCgwDOe1McTE/HbX0xBrC1u/U2t i54AoKU48qAQykqmdlyux4qUolzBhZOn =LLFX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
