[rhel7-branch 2/5] Allow cdrom-swapping when doing "inst.ks=cdrom[:...]"

wgwoods installerbot-noreply at redhat.com
Wed Jul 22 21:55:06 UTC 2015


From: Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com>

Apparently this is a thing: some people do installs in secure
environments where they have no network and aren't allowed to use USB
devices; all they can use is optical media. So they have the install
disc, and another cdrom that contains their kickstart.

So: the user boots the install DVD with "inst.ks=cdrom[:/path/ks.cfg]",
and once udev notices the disc we run both fetch-kickstart-disk and
anaconda-diskroot¹.

Normally, anaconda-diskroot would mount the installer DVD here, but we
need to be able to eject it, so anaconda-diskroot instead ignores it and
quietly exits.

Meanwhile, fetch-kickstart-disk tries to grab the kickstart and fails
(because we're looking at the install DVD!), so it asks the user to
insert the CDROM containing the kickstart.

So: when the user ejects the DVD and inserts their kickstart CD,
fetch-kickstart-disk will fetch the kickstart and ask for the install
media back.

Finally, the user re-inserts the DVD, anaconda-diskroot mounts it, and
off we go!

¹I'm assuming the ordering is undefined. It might be predictable in
reality but it's probably better if we don't rely on that.

Resolves: rhbz#1122104
(cherry picked from commit 5d016ef9451247ef569784a18600a83b92ea5d53)
---
 dracut/anaconda-diskroot    | 11 +++++++++++
 dracut/fetch-kickstart-disk | 15 +++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dracut/anaconda-diskroot b/dracut/anaconda-diskroot
index 2df6248..36fd49e 100755
--- a/dracut/anaconda-diskroot
+++ b/dracut/anaconda-diskroot
@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@ path="$2" # optional, could be empty
 
 [ -e "/dev/root" ] && exit 1 # we already have a root device!
 
+# If we're waiting for a cdrom kickstart, the user might need to swap discs.
+# So if this is a CDROM drive, make a note of it, but don't mount it (yet).
+# Once we get the kickstart either the udev trigger or disk-reinsertion will
+# retrigger this script, and we'll mount the disk as normal.
+if str_starts "$kickstart" "cdrom" && [ ! -e /tmp/ks.cfg.done ]; then
+    if dev_is_cdrom "$dev"; then
+        > /tmp/anaconda-on-cdrom
+        exit 0
+    fi
+fi
+
 info "anaconda using disk root at $dev"
 mount $dev $repodir || warn "Couldn't mount $dev"
 anaconda_live_root_dir $repodir $path
diff --git a/dracut/fetch-kickstart-disk b/dracut/fetch-kickstart-disk
index d9ead33..37a1050 100755
--- a/dracut/fetch-kickstart-disk
+++ b/dracut/fetch-kickstart-disk
@@ -14,16 +14,27 @@ info "anaconda: fetching kickstart from $dev:$path"
 mnt="$(find_mount $dev)"
 
 if [ -n "$mnt" ]; then
-    cp $mnt$path /tmp/ks.cfg
+    cp $mnt$path /tmp/ks.cfg 2>&1
 else
     tmpmnt="$(mkuniqdir /run/install tmpmnt)"
     if mount -o ro $dev $tmpmnt; then
-        cp $tmpmnt/$path /tmp/ks.cfg
+        cp $tmpmnt/$path /tmp/ks.cfg 2>&1
         umount $tmpmnt
         rmdir $tmpmnt
     fi
 fi
 
+
+# if we're waiting for a cdrom kickstart, tell the user so they can swap discs
+if str_starts "$kickstart" "cdrom"; then
+    if [ ! -f /tmp/ks.cfg ]; then
+        tell_user "Please insert CDROM containing '$path'..."
+        exit 0
+    elif [ -f /tmp/anaconda-on-cdrom ]; then
+        tell_user "Kickstart loaded. Please re-insert installation media."
+    fi
+fi
+
 if [ -f /tmp/ks.cfg ]; then
     parse_kickstart /tmp/ks.cfg
     run_kickstart


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To view this commit on github, visit https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/8e5b65de7dbffaf3524e67cc1bc2a786cf2af255


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