On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:53:44AM -0400, Andy Grimm wrote: > I made an effort to get a Fedora 19 image running in EC2 this week, and in > the end, I undid a couple of the recent changes to make it work for me. > Here's a brief overview of what I did: > 1) appliance-creator was giving me an error when the "part" line of the > kickstart had no "ondisk" option, so I added "--ondisk xvda". This > shouldn't be needed, but it helped in my case. I have a patch to appliance-creator which _should_ make this optional -- Dennis is going to take over upstream maintenance and I think will include that. Is "xvda" right for _within_ appliance-creator? > 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" postinstall stuff, > because it drastically increases the image build time for not much benefit, > IMHO. One time image build cost vs. whatever benefit multipled by every time the image is used. :) > 9) I removed the "splashimage" line from grub.conf, because it's certainly > not useful and could be harmful https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963294 > 10) I copied /boot/grub/grub.conf to /boot/grub/menu.lst, because I don't > know whether pvgrub in EC2 reliably reads both files (it's supposed to). I think it'll be okay either way, but maybe we should make a symlink? -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
