Bug 507

Summary:

bootloader-utils-0.1-alt2: configuration options are not read correctly (NOLINK & NOLAUNCH)

Product:

Sisyphus

Reporter:

imz <vanyaz>

Component:

bootloader-utils

Assignee:

placeholder <placeholder>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

critical

Priority:

CC:

at, boyarsh, glebfm, ldv, placeholder, sem, slazav, vitty, vt

Version:

unstable

Hardware:

all

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
0000507-installkernel-yesparams.patch	none

Description imz 2002-02-02 00:13:56 MSK

The file /etc/sysconfig/installkernel describes the options NOLINK &amp; NOLAUNCH; there is said that one should set them to \&quot;yes\&quot; if he wants to enable them.

But the script /sbin/installkernel doesn\'t treat these values correctly: it expects some arguments like \&quot;-n\&quot; rather than \&quot;yes\&quot; as their values.

As a result /sbin/installkernel doesn\'t work correctly when NOLINK=\&quot;yes\&quot; is set in the config file: it tries to make an InitRD image for the kernel version \&quot;yes\&quot; instead of the real version and fails to do so. So no InitRD is created (even when it is needed) and the installed kernel can\'t be booted.

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Set NOLINK=\&quot;yes\&quot; in /etc/sysconfig/installkernel and install a kernel that requires InitRD on your system.


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A patch to fix it is attached.

Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-03-15 11:39:17 MSK

Thanks,
applied the patch in
bootloader-utils-0.1-alt4

Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-03-15 11:39:17 MSK

Thanks,
applied the patch in
bootloader-utils-0.1-alt4