Mark Huang [Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:59:51 +0000 (19:59 +0000)]
- remove /boot (kernel stored on boot media)
- remove /usr/lib/gconv (only used by iconv)
- remove /usr/lib/tls (don't need tls support in the bootcd)
Mark Huang [Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:51:49 +0000 (17:51 +0000)]
- install the cert of the CA that signed the boot server cert on the
bootcd
- if /etc/planetlab/plc_config is not a valid myplc configuration (maybe
a myplc-devel configuration), try static configuration
Mark Huang [Sat, 1 Jul 2006 03:13:23 +0000 (03:13 +0000)]
do not compile com32 tools
Mark Huang [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:34:51 +0000 (21:34 +0000)]
- revert to 1.36 (install boot server cert, which may optionally be a
third-party CA cert)
Thierry Parmentelat [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:01:01 +0000 (15:01 +0000)]
added a comment on the load order among the images
Thierry Parmentelat [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:18:11 +0000 (14:18 +0000)]
reworked, now uses a third image for holding local customizations - able to generate a custom node-independent image too
Mark Huang [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:28:31 +0000 (20:28 +0000)]
- install root CA SSL certificate instead of boot server certificate
Mark Huang [Tue, 30 May 2006 19:09:14 +0000 (19:09 +0000)]
- remove pycurl from bootcd
Thierry Parmentelat [Tue, 23 May 2006 13:07:09 +0000 (13:07 +0000)]
supports partial bootcd in bootcd-custom, merges with CD if found
Thierry Parmentelat [Tue, 23 May 2006 08:58:03 +0000 (08:58 +0000)]
reworked for new CD layout
Mark Huang [Thu, 18 May 2006 22:30:22 +0000 (22:30 +0000)]
- fix removal of junk; let bash expand the wildcards
- remove precious tarball when done
Mark Huang [Thu, 18 May 2006 22:18:07 +0000 (22:18 +0000)]
- label step
Mark Huang [Thu, 18 May 2006 21:52:51 +0000 (21:52 +0000)]
- get rid of a lot of unnecessary junk
Mark Huang [Tue, 16 May 2006 18:31:32 +0000 (18:31 +0000)]
- remove duplicate openssh-clients specification
- vanilla yum no longer requires pycurl, but bootmanager implicitly
does; add an explicit dependency
Mark Huang [Mon, 15 May 2006 21:13:58 +0000 (21:13 +0000)]
- build FC4 based Boot CD by default
Mark Huang [Mon, 15 May 2006 21:11:00 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
- start udevd if appropriate (FC4)
Mark Huang [Mon, 15 May 2006 19:19:55 +0000 (19:19 +0000)]
- build using fc4, need -k to avoid installing vanilla fc4 kernel
Mark Huang [Mon, 15 May 2006 19:19:33 +0000 (19:19 +0000)]
- build with fc4 filesystem
- rename bootcd_v3 to bootcd
Mark Huang [Mon, 15 May 2006 19:15:56 +0000 (19:15 +0000)]
remove generated files
Thierry Parmentelat [Wed, 3 May 2006 07:42:31 +0000 (07:42 +0000)]
isolinux, plnode.txt and boot.cat move one dir up to the CD image root
Mark Huang [Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:42:59 +0000 (20:42 +0000)]
- dirname no longer in /bin
Mark Huang [Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:59:10 +0000 (03:59 +0000)]
*** empty log message ***
Mark Huang [Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:58:07 +0000 (03:58 +0000)]
- fix /etc/issue generation
Mark Huang [Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:50:08 +0000 (03:50 +0000)]
- provide a better /etc/issue message
Mark Huang [Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:07:45 +0000 (20:07 +0000)]
- define default PATH
Mark Huang [Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:36:49 +0000 (19:36 +0000)]
- move the default PLC BootCD image into a subpackage
- the bootcd package now just contains the reference image and the
customization script
Mark Huang [Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:35:39 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
- move most of the old build.sh script here. This script builds the bulk
of the bootcd ahead of time; build.sh now just customizes it based on
MyPLC variables or static configurations specified with -c
- make this script use mkfedora
Mark Huang [Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:33:56 +0000 (19:33 +0000)]
- make this script a quick reconfigure script by splitting the cd into 2
initramfs images, one that is built by prep.sh ahead of time, and one
that is (quickly) built by this script
- this requires syslinux-3.08, now checked in as source
Mark Huang [Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:33:23 +0000 (19:33 +0000)]
This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1815,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.
Mark Huang [Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:28:21 +0000 (19:28 +0000)]
- set hostname when configuring statically
Mark Huang [Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:28:11 +0000 (19:28 +0000)]
- just support biginitrd from now on; find can stay in /usr/bin
Mark Huang [Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:57:29 +0000 (14:57 +0000)]
- run createrepo as well
- if run under sudo, allow user to delete the headers/ and repodata/
directories
Mark Huang [Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:20:34 +0000 (18:20 +0000)]
- run yum-arch on Bootstrap RPMS directory before using
Marc Fiuczynski [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:29:33 +0000 (19:29 +0000)]
Correction from previous commit.
Check if /usr is in the ramdisk by comparing /usr/isolinux/pl_version
with /pl_version. If it is, then there is no need to try and mount it
from some device.
Marc Fiuczynski [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:27:15 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
Check for plnode.txt in / on the ram disk first before checking everything else.
Marc Fiuczynski [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:25:52 +0000 (19:25 +0000)]
Bump version number.
Refactored old build_initrd() into init_initrd() and a new build_initd().
The new build_initrd() can be used to create both a big and small initrd.
Marc Fiuczynski [Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:22:47 +0000 (19:22 +0000)]
Bump version number.
bzip and md5sum new biginitrd image.
Thierry Parmentelat [Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:42:18 +0000 (11:42 +0000)]
can make multiple CDs in a single run
Thierry Parmentelat [Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:43:33 +0000 (08:43 +0000)]
fixed for when the nodeconf is a symlink
Mark Huang [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:50:39 +0000 (16:50 +0000)]
support pldistro "variants"
Thierry Parmentelat [Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:35:40 +0000 (13:35 +0000)]
creation
this shell script allows to create a node-dependant ISO image
Mark Huang [Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:30:03 +0000 (23:30 +0000)]
- Some temporary cdroot files like /var/empty/sshd and
/usr/bin/sudo get created with non-readable permissions.
Mark Huang [Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:00:42 +0000 (19:00 +0000)]
- use the rollout yumgroups.xml for now (which contains the BootCD group
definition)
Mark Huang [Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:21:02 +0000 (17:21 +0000)]
- PL6755 fix: use planetlab-rollout/yumgroups.xml file (which contains
the BootCD group definition) until the 3.2 rollout is complete and the
/planetlab/yumgroups.xml file contains the BootCD group.
Mark Huang [Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:35:03 +0000 (22:35 +0000)]
add bootcd_v3 to automated build
Mark Huang [Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:34:51 +0000 (22:34 +0000)]
- yum.conf is now generated on the fly by the build script
- BootCD group now defined in standard build/groups/v3_yumgroups.xml file
Mark Huang [Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:34:19 +0000 (22:34 +0000)]
- update build sources section: build sources are now pulled from the
configured boot server
Mark Huang [Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:33:46 +0000 (22:33 +0000)]
- bump version number
- check for bootmanager-* directories as well (automated build appends
version strings to exported build directories)
- generate yum.conf on the fly
- solve the bootstrap problem by also including any just built packages
in yum.conf
- retrieve yumgroups.xml from the configured boot server
- add /sbin and /usr/sbin to su programs, in case we're running under
sudo and they're not in build's PATH
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:46:32 +0000 (18:46 +0000)]
rebuild to fix grammar errors
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:39:54 +0000 (18:39 +0000)]
fix grammar errors
Aaron Klingaman [Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:18:13 +0000 (20:18 +0000)]
first version of boot cd documentation (3.x cds)
Aaron Klingaman [Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:04:12 +0000 (23:04 +0000)]
working draft of boot cd v3 documentation
Thierry Parmentelat [Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:24:00 +0000 (16:24 +0000)]
This change is for yum-2.4 from fc4
when we build the CD from an fc4 node, we want the yum client to ignore
/etc/yum.repos.d/
This probably would still make sense if the nodes were to run fc4 too.
Thierry Parmentelat [Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:23:28 +0000 (16:23 +0000)]
When using yum-2.4 from fc4 to build the bootcd, we get a huge
directory under <cdroot>/var/yum/cache (in the 100Mb)
It is thus relocated under usr/relocated/var/cache/ and a symlink is
created, in much the same way as for /var/lib/rpm
Not sure that makes sense to keep all this though, but for now it
allows to proceed
Mark Huang [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:21:39 +0000 (21:21 +0000)]
- if using it to boot, mount the flash device at /tmp/<partition>
instead of trying to be clever and temporarily mounting it at
/usr. Being clever confuses "mount /usr" in BootServerRequest.py,
causing it to re-mount the FAT filesystem a third time on top of /usr
instead of leaving it alone as already mounted.
Mark Huang [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:19:15 +0000 (21:19 +0000)]
- leave 1 MB of free space on the USB image filesystem
Mark Huang [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:09:53 +0000 (19:09 +0000)]
- trick rpm and yum into only installing en_US locale and no docs when
using rpm --root or yum --installroot
Mark Huang [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:56:58 +0000 (18:56 +0000)]
- bump version number of BootCD now that we support USB flash
Mark Huang [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:50:48 +0000 (18:50 +0000)]
build a USB image as well
Mark Huang [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:50:18 +0000 (18:50 +0000)]
- when checking removable flash devices, check all partitions on it
(including the case when there are no partitions on it (e.g. just
/dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1), i.e. the way I'm about to recommend
that the flash devices be formatted in the documentation: dd
if=PlanetLab-BootCD-3.0.usb of=/dev/sda)
Mark Huang [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:48:19 +0000 (18:48 +0000)]
- add support for booting from USB flash device.
- the way this works is to loopback mount the usual ISO9660 image, which
should reside as a regular file on the (presumably FAT) filesystem on
the key.
Aaron Klingaman [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:14:07 +0000 (15:14 +0000)]
final 3.0 image
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:25:26 +0000 (17:25 +0000)]
change boot cd repo name, remove 'test' since we are long beyond that.
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 27 May 2005 19:04:48 +0000 (19:04 +0000)]
add default usb system wait period
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 27 May 2005 18:06:56 +0000 (18:06 +0000)]
- move flash device delay from pl_netinit to pl_hwinit
- rather than just wait for a blind 15seconds, wait up to 30 seconds
checking /sys/devices to see if drivers are loaded for the mass storage
devices, checking every 5 seconds
- above change requires the find and dirname binaries, which were moved
from /usr/bin to /bin (by build.sh)
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 27 May 2005 14:52:24 +0000 (14:52 +0000)]
increase delay for flash devices, output lspci lines for network adapters
if net initialization fails (so it is easy for users to email us when
the cd doesn't support their net adapters)
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 27 May 2005 14:51:22 +0000 (14:51 +0000)]
move the merge_hw_tables.py script to the bootmanager, and call it from there
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 20 May 2005 15:18:32 +0000 (15:18 +0000)]
moved to boot manager
Aaron Klingaman [Mon, 9 May 2005 17:04:11 +0000 (17:04 +0000)]
for backwards compatibilty, copy primary server cacert to old directory
/usr/bootme/cacert/<server>/cacert.pem
Aaron Klingaman [Mon, 9 May 2005 15:04:54 +0000 (15:04 +0000)]
- make the EXTRA_VERSION part come before the primary version, so the
version files on the boot cd always end with the major/minor numbers (easier
parsing)
- remove ability to specify output iso name, build it from the version info
Aaron Klingaman [Mon, 9 May 2005 14:32:25 +0000 (14:32 +0000)]
add sharutils (for uudecode/uuencode) to cd
Aaron Klingaman [Thu, 5 May 2005 18:07:58 +0000 (18:07 +0000)]
how bind-utils isn't on the cd until now is beyond me. this adds the host
command.
Aaron Klingaman [Wed, 4 May 2005 18:09:08 +0000 (18:09 +0000)]
up contact attempts to 3 and print a message indicating which server
(primary/backup) we are attempting to connect to.
Aaron Klingaman [Wed, 4 May 2005 16:50:14 +0000 (16:50 +0000)]
- update build process to support multiple boot cd configurations
(different set of servers to contact, etc)
- make default configuration one that contacts plc, backup server boot1 at
plc
- modify pl_boot script to contact backup server after a number of failures
Aaron Klingaman [Tue, 3 May 2005 21:24:00 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
path for sleep wrong
Aaron Klingaman [Tue, 3 May 2005 19:40:59 +0000 (19:40 +0000)]
doesn't work, no point in keeping it or fixing it
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:33:37 +0000 (19:33 +0000)]
run all configuration files through dos2unix
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:27:58 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
add dos utility rpms
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:50:49 +0000 (18:50 +0000)]
update the version file in the old location (used for backward compatibility)
Aaron Klingaman [Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:23:11 +0000 (18:23 +0000)]
a few typos created the nice chain of events:
1. modules.dep was not being read for the list of modules
2. the script merges pcitable (from hwdata) based on the list of modules
(which wasn't present)
3. this resulted in a few modules not being loaded by the boot cd when
appropriate, including the mptscsih driver for the scsi controllers
in dell 1850s
the cd worked fine otherwise because it successfully read modules.pcimap
which is generated based on the PCI_ENTRY fields in the drivers. For some
reason, the mptscsih driver DOESN'T have a PCI_ENTRY in its driver,
so it doesn't show up there. fedora's pcitable (from hwdata) has
it, which is why the two sources need to be merged.
Aaron Klingaman [Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:05:25 +0000 (21:05 +0000)]
update net init scripts and basic validate script to use
new fields for the boot manager (NODE_KEY, NODE_ID, and NET_DEVICE)
Aaron Klingaman [Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:00:15 +0000 (21:00 +0000)]
bump release number
Aaron Klingaman [Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:58:59 +0000 (20:58 +0000)]
enable configuration files to be located in numerous places, including
enabling support for usb based flash disks.
Aaron Klingaman [Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:09:51 +0000 (19:09 +0000)]
net.ipv4.tcp_default_win_scale removed in 2.6.10, use
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling instead
Aaron Klingaman [Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:18:00 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
add a nice little hack to make sure that yum installs all the rpms
in the bootcd group, so the script will fail if anything is missing
Aaron Klingaman [Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:43:25 +0000 (19:43 +0000)]
make version 0.3, 0.2 was built on an incorrect kernel rpm and was pulled
Aaron Klingaman [Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:40:32 +0000 (18:40 +0000)]
- bump ramdisk size to 64mb to handle kernels with all modules
- bump version to 0.2: rebuilt with latest 2.6.8 planetlab kernel
- make sure the script exits if the ramdisk creation fails
Aaron Klingaman [Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:32:02 +0000 (16:32 +0000)]
call sysctl -e -p to load /etc/sysctl.conf
Aaron Klingaman [Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:20:00 +0000 (16:20 +0000)]
spelling mistake in message output
Aaron Klingaman [Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:00:30 +0000 (16:00 +0000)]
add tcp window/broken router fix
Aaron Klingaman [Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:34:39 +0000 (20:34 +0000)]
in generating the pci table lookup for hardware detection, we now
merge in what we can from /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable. it is more out of date
that the dynamically generated modules.pcimap, but, it also seems to contain
some entries that are missing from the modules.
Aaron Klingaman [Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:45:36 +0000 (19:45 +0000)]
readd ability for bootscripts to cancel the boot process
Aaron Klingaman [Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:37:51 +0000 (19:37 +0000)]
explicitly add openssh-server
add ncftp
Aaron Klingaman [Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:04:05 +0000 (19:04 +0000)]
remove blank=fast from burn command
Aaron Klingaman [Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:07:25 +0000 (16:07 +0000)]
add parted and the python pyparted bindings
Aaron Klingaman [Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:06:57 +0000 (16:06 +0000)]
copy old bootme directory and new lvm conf file
Aaron Klingaman [Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:06:35 +0000 (16:06 +0000)]
make lvm default to lvm1 metadata, for backward compatibilityx
Aaron Klingaman [Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:05:51 +0000 (16:05 +0000)]
add old bootme dir to make cd work with hacked up scripts
Aaron Klingaman [Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:40:39 +0000 (22:40 +0000)]
write out the output of ifconfig to /tmp for backward compatibility.
Aaron Klingaman [Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:40:09 +0000 (22:40 +0000)]
for backward compatibility, write a list of loaded modules to /tmp