koan --replace-self relies on grubby

[Tom Ellis]

Binary package hint: cobbler

When using koan's --replace-self option, an additional grub entry is used and set as default, so the system is rebooted into the install kernel without having to PXE boot.

This is a neat feature of koan but it relies on 'grubby' which is grub1 specific.

[Tom Ellis (tellis)]

This is similar to #760019 's reliance on grubby

[Tom Ellis (tellis)]

root@ubuntu-client:~# koan -s 10.153.107.126 --replace-self --profile=natty-client
- looking for Cobbler at http://10.153.107.126/cobbler_api
install_tree: http://10.153.107.126
downloading initrd initrd.gz to /boot/initrd.gz
url=http://10.153.107.126/cobbler/images/natty/initrd.gz
- reading URL: http://10.153.107.126/cobbler/images/natty/initrd.gz
downloading kernel linux to /boot/linux
url=http://10.153.107.126/cobbler/images/natty/linux
- reading URL: http://10.153.107.126/cobbler/images/natty/linux
grubby is not installed

[Tom Ellis (tellis)]

grub2 uses grub-mkconfig (called by update-grub) to regen the grub.cfg file, as the linux and initrd.gz files are downloaded correctly by koan to /boot/linux and /boot/initrd.gz you can get use it to regenerate the grub.cfg file.

I think grub-mkconfig expects the files in the format vmlinuz-$version and initrd-img-$version though...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package cobbler - 2.1.0+git20110602-0ubuntu11

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cobbler (2.1.0+git20110602-0ubuntu11) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/51_koan_grub2_instead_of_grubby.patch: Use grub2 for koan's
    '--replace-self' option instead of grubby. (LP: #766229)
 -- Andres Rodriguez <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:02:53 -0400