Re: Bootloader problems deploying from ostree repo using anaconda kickstarter (reproductible, configuration files attached)

[Leandro Santiago <leandrosansilva gmail com>]

Then I did the most obvious: commited the missing link (loader) to
directory loader.0 (no trailing slash) and the error at least has
changed :-)

Now I have the following error:
08:55:38,155 INFO program: Running... ostree admin instutil set-kargs
root=UUID=3aaf5f99-4bc2-4926-8de3-de813e99bf06
08:55:38,267 INFO program: error: Unable to find a deployment in sysroot
08:55:38,269 DEBUG program: Return code: 1

I am now trying to solve this issue...

On 23 May 2015 at 20:31, Leandro Santiago <leandrosansilva gmail com> wrote:
> First of all, I found no documentation about doing what I am trying to
> do, but it's in theory possible. Please let me know if I am posting to
> the wrong mailing list :-)
>
> What I am doing is basically the following: From a normal fedora
> installer (I used both fedora 22 and rawhide) I am booting a machine
> (for now on virtualbox) and using a remote kickstart which deploys a
> remote ostree (based on centos 7, generated by rpm-ostree-toolbox). In
> a ideal world it should work, but I am having some problem in the
> post-install phase, installing the boot loader.
>
> Basically the error happens then the installer tries to move the
> /boot/grub.cfg file to /boot/loader/grub.cfg
> (os.rename(boot_grub2_cfg, target_grub_cfg) on rpmostreepayload.py).
> But as the directory /boot/loader/ does not exist, the installation
> fails.
>
> I am not using the CentOS 7 installer because it does not support
> ostreesetup kickstart command, whereas Fedora does. When using Fedora
> to deploy CentOS, am I trying to achieve the impossible? :-)
>
> In order to reproduce the problem, download the attached file, extract
> its contents and generate (inside it) the tree:
> # rpm-ostree-toolbox treecompose -c centos-atomic-egym.ini --ostreerepo repo
>
> Then copy the repo dir to the server machine, which in my case has the
> IP 192.168.56.1 (Virtualbox host). Copy the file setup.ks too. If your
> IP is different, you will need to change it in this file
>
> Then I start a simple http server in the directory which contains both
> repo/ and setup.ks, where the data will be fetched from.
>
> # python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
>
> Now trying to deploy the tree on the client... I am booting a clean
> virtualbox machine (with a clean 6GB virtual hard drive, which will be
> wiped anyway) which is able to reach the host on network. As I said
> before, I am using fedora 22 installer, but the latest rawhide image
> (boot.iso) has the same behavior.
>
> On the boot options, I add: ks=http://192.168.56.1:8080/setup.ks
>
> The process is non-interactive and, just after pulling and deploying
> the image, the bootloader error happens.
>
> This may not be related to ostree, but to CentOS or what I am trying
> to perform is just nonsense :-) Perhaps someone in the mailing list
> will be able to give me any clue :-)
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Oh, both config files and error logs generated by anaconda are in the
> link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3550969/egym-ostree-config.tar.bz2
>
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