Offer user a choice of kernels in Installer's menu

[marmarek]

Reported by joanna on 1 Jun 2012 11:24 UTC
... and then install ALL our Dom0 kernels, and make default (in grub.conf) the one that has been used during the install.

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/581

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 15 Jun 2012 13:28 UTC
This isn't as easy as I though... Anaconda/revisor don't want to install multiple versions of the same package. Will require some more tinkering...

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 15 Jun 2012 13:28 UTC
This isn't as easy as I though... Anaconda/revisor don't want to install multiple versions of the same package. Will require some more tinkering...

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 21 Jun 2012 23:36 UTC
I think we might just ship the installer with 3.2.7 kernel (that seems to at least boot correctly on all systems), and have the installer install also the xenlinux kernel, in case the user had problems with e.g. S3 sleep.

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 21 Jun 2012 23:36 UTC
I think we might just ship the installer with 3.2.7 kernel (that seems to at least boot correctly on all systems), and have the installer install also the xenlinux kernel, in case the user had problems with e.g. S3 sleep.

[marmarek]

Modified by joanna on 25 Jun 2012 14:29 UTC

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Modified by joanna on 25 Jun 2012 14:29 UTC

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Comment by joanna on 1 Aug 2013 12:40 UTC
Seems like we can easily do this by manually doing rpm -i kernel-XXX in the installer's post method. Also, would be nice to offer a few kernels for the installer itself (so, in the isolinux boot menu).

While at it, would be also nice to do #727, which I'm closing as a dup of this one.

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 1 Aug 2013 12:40 UTC
Seems like we can easily do this by manually doing rpm -i kernel-XXX in the installer's post method. Also, would be nice to offer a few kernels for the installer itself (so, in the isolinux boot menu).

While at it, would be also nice to do #727, which I'm closing as a dup of this one.

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 16 Aug 2013 03:02 UTC

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Modified by marmarek on 16 Aug 2013 03:02 UTC

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Comment by marmarek on 28 Aug 2013 09:59 UTC
Finally commited.
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/installer-qubes-os.git;a=commit;h=05c26844ca961a7ce8fda97e54295bd58091ac2f
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/installer-qubes-os.git;a=commit;h=76f22a0ea0533b1c0efd6a2cd5dfddd67024045a
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/installer-qubes-os.git;a=commit;h=bd57fa02eccbdb8a77ccae4ac8fc1ef5431ceff6
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/qubes-builder.git;a=commit;h=4c6b3d61351f2fbca31a384bd7ce270fa291a9d3

Generating installation ISO with multiple kernels:

1. build multiple kernel packages in linux-kernel repo (make linux-kernel-dom0, switch branch, make linux-kernel-dom0 etc...)
2. set INSTALLER_ALL_KERNELS=yes in builder.conf
3. make iso

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 28 Aug 2013 09:59 UTC
Finally commited.
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/installer-qubes-os.git;a=commit;h=05c26844ca961a7ce8fda97e54295bd58091ac2f
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/installer-qubes-os.git;a=commit;h=76f22a0ea0533b1c0efd6a2cd5dfddd67024045a
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/installer-qubes-os.git;a=commit;h=bd57fa02eccbdb8a77ccae4ac8fc1ef5431ceff6
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/qubes-builder.git;a=commit;h=4c6b3d61351f2fbca31a384bd7ce270fa291a9d3

Generating installation ISO with multiple kernels:

1. build multiple kernel packages in linux-kernel repo (make linux-kernel-dom0, switch branch, make linux-kernel-dom0 etc...)
2. set INSTALLER_ALL_KERNELS=yes in builder.conf
3. make iso