Re: Kickstart and grub2
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Chris Lumens clum...@redhat.com wrote: Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader line in kickstart? No, there have been no changes to the bootloader command for grub2. Should there be? Using vga=... throws up a warning at boot that it's deprecated. I've been using grub2 for almost two years and I've only now realized (hopefully correctly!) that it's grub not the kernel that's deprecating vga= So it's not necessarily an issue. As for other grub2 settings, I was dreaming in full iMax mode that kickstart might allow us to tweak some of the other grub2 settings. No big deal. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Kickstart and grub2
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Chris Lumens clum...@redhat.com wrote: OT for this thread but for the record regarding kickstart documentation: the part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 kickstart entry to create a bios_grub partition on a GPT disk isn't yet documented on the kickstart fp.o page. There's still some discussion on whether we're going to require people to do that, or if we'll just create it automatically for you. I imagine once we straighten that out, docs will get updated. Thanks. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Kickstart and grub2
2011/8/17 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: On 08/16/2011 11:25 PM, Tom H wrote: Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader line in kickstart? VGA= is not a kickstart setting it's an kernel command line parameter and with grub2 you need to use set gfxpayload=$your-desired-resolution instead. You can find the available kickstart settings on the ( extremely well ) documented kickstart page [1] from the Anaconda team... For example, I installed F16 through kickstart yesterday with vga=794, which adds it to the linux ... line. I get correct resolution but I also get a boot message that using vga=... is deprecated and that gfxpayload should be used. vga=794 would be set gfxmode=1280x1024x16,1280x1024 and you will need to add something like the below to the grub2 config file set gfxmode=$your-desired-resolution set gfxpayload=keep insmod gfxterm insmod vbe 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart Thanks. vga= may not be a kickstart setting but it is a grub kernel line argument that can be set through the kickstart bootloader command's --append= option. I know how to set the gfxmode (I've been using grub2 since the alpha of Ubuntu 9.10 and the canonical way is to edit /etc/default/grub and regenerate grub.cfg and not to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg - or /boot/grub2/grub.cfg on Fedora - as you seem to be suggesting), so thanks for the grub.cfg edit but my question remains unanswered. Is there a way - other than through %post - to end up, for example, with a set gfxmode=$desired-resolution line in grub.cfg rather than adding vga=$desired-resolution to the grub.cfg linux line? -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Kickstart and grub2
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:48:51AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: VGA= is not a kickstart setting it's an kernel command line parameter and with grub2 you need to use set gfxpayload=$your-desired-resolution instead. You can find the available kickstart settings on the ( extremely well ) documented kickstart page [1] from the Anaconda team... vga=794 would be set gfxmode=1280x1024x16||,1280x1024 and you will need to add something like the below to the grub2 config file set gfxmode=$your-desired-resolution set gfxpayload=keep insmod gfxterm insmod vbe JBG 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart Is this a correct reference? I looked at this page and nothing was found by a search for a string gfx. Just in case I checked also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2 and there was no mention of that string either. Regardless, when looking how to configure grub2 I doubt very much if Anaconda/Kickstart would be my first, or even second, choice of a place to visit. Is this also really the case that in kickstart you do: set gfxpayload=$your-desired-resolution while in grub2 configuration set gfxpayload=keep or the above is a mixup? Michal -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Kickstart and grub2
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Michal Jaegermann mic...@harddata.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:48:51AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: VGA= is not a kickstart setting it's an kernel command line parameter and with grub2 you need to use set gfxpayload=$your-desired-resolution instead. You can find the available kickstart settings on the ( extremely well ) documented kickstart page [1] from the Anaconda team... vga=794 would be set gfxmode=1280x1024x16||,1280x1024 and you will need to add something like the below to the grub2 config file set gfxmode=$your-desired-resolution set gfxpayload=keep insmod gfxterm insmod vbe 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart Is this a correct reference? I looked at this page and nothing was found by a search for a string gfx. Just in case I checked also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2 and there was no mention of that string either. Regardless, when looking how to configure grub2 I doubt very much if Anaconda/Kickstart would be my first, or even second, choice of a place to visit. Is this also really the case that in kickstart you do: set gfxpayload=$your-desired-resolution while in grub2 configuration set gfxpayload=keep or the above is a mixup? My initial question was about passing grub2 parameters through kickstart so the discussion's a mix of kickstart and grub2. The kickstart fp.o page referenced above doesn't have any info on grub2 (unless it's been updated in the last few hours) hence my question, especially since using 'bootloader ... --append=vga=... ... ...' in a kickstart configuration file adds vga=... to the grub.cfg linux line, which results in a warning at boot that the vga=... setting's deprecated. The upstream way of setting the resolution is to set GRUB_GFXMODE=resolution in /etc/default/grub and run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg on Fedora) to re-generate grub.cfg. Fedora adds a further twist (other than s/grub/grub2/g) because of grubby. I've yet to create grub.cfg entries with grubby to see how it's functioning, but if you run grub2-mkconfig ..., the menu entry titles are Fedora Linux ...kernel_version..., whereas when the kernel's upgraded through yum, the post-install script runs /sbin/new-kernel-pkg, which creates Fedora ...kernel_version... menu entry titles through grubby. OT for this thread but for the record regarding kickstart documentation: the part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 kickstart entry to create a bios_grub partition on a GPT disk isn't yet documented on the kickstart fp.o page. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Kickstart and grub2
Are there any new grub2-related kickstart settings for the bootloader line in kickstart? No, there have been no changes to the bootloader command for grub2. Should there be? - Chris -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Kickstart and grub2
OT for this thread but for the record regarding kickstart documentation: the part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 kickstart entry to create a bios_grub partition on a GPT disk isn't yet documented on the kickstart fp.o page. There's still some discussion on whether we're going to require people to do that, or if we'll just create it automatically for you. I imagine once we straighten that out, docs will get updated. - Chris -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
