[Lucid] Backport generic detection of Xen kernels for EC2
Bug #1176159 reported by
Stefan Bader
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cloud-init (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In order to try transitioning from the specially patched EC2 kernels for Lucid, we are aiming to have the virtual(
For that update-grub on EC2 PVM would need to detect the normal kernels to be usable. This is already done for later releases where this does not depend on the filename of kernels but on the config options in the config file shipped with them.
To prepare for this, can we have that change backported to Lucid? Probably preferring ec2 kernels before others of the same version.
Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: patch |
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Stefan, grub-legacy- ec2, which is provided by grub-legacy-ec2, a binary package created from cloud-init does not consider config of the kernel at all.
Sorry for being so delinquent in seeing this.
Ubuntu's update-
The logic only considers kernel name and version.
we can surely patch this to cover the updated kernel, and yeah, we need to do that.