Hi Niall,
Quick question not about the changes you made, but about a comment I noticed in the webrev (these
are b14 line numbers):
820 # XXX Seth: Pybootmgmt ought to be creating this directory tree
821 # when doing a physical boot loader installation onto the disk.
822 # While it's being fixed, create the directories ourselves to
823 # make legacy Grub installation work.
Was just wondering about this and if a bug should be filed to track it.
Sue
On 04/ 1/12 08:50 PM, Niall Power wrote:
Hi,
Install PIT discovered a problem on SPARC that in some circumstances could
caues boot loader
installation to fail on SPARC.
This is also a potential issue for X86 systems. Due to the severity I'd like
to, if at all possible,
get this fix into build 13.
7158052 - Installation fails due to installboot returned unexpected exit status
4 in s11u1_13.
There are 2 webrevs: one for build 13 and one for build 14.
The difference is that the b14 webrev is a subset of the b13 fix. The reason
for that is that in
build 14 we switched to using pybootmgmt to handle boot loader installation on
both X86 AND SPARC,
whereas upto build 13, we handled SPARC boot loader setup directly.
For b13, the installboot(1M) needs to be passed the "-f" switch to force boot
loader installation,
and when using pybootmgmt for X86, commit_boot_config() needs to be passed the
"force=True" arg val.
For b14 we just need to carry forward the "force=True" arg val when invoking
commit_boot_config()
Webrevs:
------------
Build 13:
http://jurassic.us.oracle.com/~npower/webrevs/webrev-force-bootblck-b13/
Build 14:
http://jurassic.us.oracle.com/~npower/webrevs/webrev-force-bootblck-b14/
I've built build 13 DC SPARC and X86 ISO images incorporating the fix. Seth has
confirmed that they
fix the problem.
He has also already reviewed the webrev and given this a +1
Thanks,
Niall
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