From: Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@sophia.inria.fr>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 19:51:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: fix for centos5-based variant bootCD, where device mapper needs some help
X-Git-Tag: BootManager-4.3-4~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=bootmanager.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c104e28ef76af8984380e3a3d71dced9a1a63386

fix for centos5-based variant bootCD, where device mapper needs some help
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diff --git a/source/steps/InitializeBootManager.py b/source/steps/InitializeBootManager.py
index 96de44c..b419a90 100644
--- a/source/steps/InitializeBootManager.py
+++ b/source/steps/InitializeBootManager.py
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ def Run( vars, log ):
 
     BOOT_CD_VERSION= vars['BOOT_CD_VERSION']
     
+    # In case we are booted with a kernel that does not have the
+    # device mapper code compiled into the kernel.
+    if not os.path.exists("/dev/mapper"):
+        log.write( "Loading support for LVM\n" )
+        utils.sysexec_noerr( "modprobe dm_mod", log )
+
     # for anything that needs to know we are running under the boot cd and
     # not the runtime os
     os.environ['PL_BOOTCD']= "1"