Revision as of 11:03, 27 August 2009

Description

Boot from NBD root fs with dracut

How to test

Prepare NBD server and a root fs containing the OS version we want to boot.

Install needed packages

yum install nbd anaconda anaconda-runtime

Prepare a disk image (can be a file, disk partition, LVM volume):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/nbd.img bs=1M count=5120

Create a file system on the image and mount it so we can install onto it

mkfs.ext3 /tmp/nbd.img
mkdir -p /mnt/nbdroot
mount -o loop /tmp/nbd.img /mnt/nbdroot

Install the OS under /mnt/nbdroot using anaconda

anaconda --text --rootpath=/mnt/nbdroot --method=http://fedora.nano-box.net/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/

Note: because of RHBZ #519665 you may want to try using yum instead. You should modify your yum repos to explicitly list architecture and release version instead of meta variables:

yum groupinstall @base --root

Export the image with NBD (2345 is the TCP port)

nbd-server 2345 /tmp/nbd.img

Prepare the test system to use the exported NBD image. You need to boot the kernel and initrd.img generated from Dracut with the correct parameters. You can use DHCP/PXE or local /boot disk on the test system. This example uses local /boot disk.

The test system is pre-installed and /boot is on the local disk
You need to use dracut to generate initrd.img and get the kernel image as well
Place the vmlinuz and initrd.img files under /boot and configure grub.conf. It should look like:

Boot the test system

Expected Results

The following must be true to consider this a successful test run.

The system will boot from the kernel+initrd pair
init will bring up the network interface and mount the NBD image
The init process will successfully switch to the new root and the system will boot into default runlevel

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 |description=Boot from NBD root fs with dracut
 |actions=
-IN PROGRESS
-# Start here ...
+Prepare NBD server and a root fs containing the OS version we want to boot.
-# Next do this ...
+# Install needed packages
-# Finally click that
+ yum install nbd anaconda anaconda-runtime
+# Prepare a disk image (can be a file, disk partition, LVM volume):
+ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/nbd.img bs=1M count=5120
+# Create a file system on the image and mount it so we can install onto it
+ mkfs.ext3 /tmp/nbd.img
+ mkdir -p /mnt/nbdroot
+ mount -o loop /tmp/nbd.img /mnt/nbdroot
+# Install the OS under /mnt/nbdroot using anaconda
+ anaconda --text --rootpath=/mnt/nbdroot --method=http://fedora.nano-box.net/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/
+Note: because of {{bz|519665}} you may want to try using yum instead. You should modify your yum repos to explicitly list architecture and release version instead of meta variables:
+ yum groupinstall @base --root
+# Export the image with NBD (2345 is the TCP port)
+ nbd-server 2345 /tmp/nbd.img
+Prepare the test system to use the exported NBD image. You need to boot the kernel and initrd.img generated from Dracut with the correct parameters. You can use DHCP/PXE or local /boot disk on the test system. This example uses local /boot disk.
+# The test system is pre-installed and /boot is on the local disk
+# You need to use dracut to generate initrd.img and get the kernel image as well
+# Place the vmlinuz and initrd.img files under /boot and configure grub.conf. It should look like:
+# Boot the test system
 |results=
-The following must be true to consider this a successful test run. Be brief ... but explicit.
+The following must be true to consider this a successful test run.
-# Step #1 completes without error
+# The system will boot from the kernel+initrd pair
-# The system boots into runlevel 5
+# init will bring up the network interface and mount the NBD image
-# Program completes wth exit code 0
+# The init process will successfully switch to the new root and the system will boot into default runlevel
 }}

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Revision as of 11:03, 27 August 2009

Description

How to test

Expected Results