[OE-core] [PATCH] wic: Switch to using --use-uuid by default

Ed Bartosh ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com
Wed Jul 26 16:03:25 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:29:09AM +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 03:58:22PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > The most portable way to specifiy a root device in a disk image that we
> > create is to use PARTUUID rather than /dev/sda2.  As background, both
> > GPT and MBR tables provide valid UUID values for each partition and the
> > Linux Kernel contains the logic to parse this value.  With this change
> > we can now boot the default disk images when used as any valid block
> > device that the included kernel uses.  This for example means that
> > VirtualBox can be used to run vmdk without changes as it uses IDE for
> > the virtual disk controller.
> >
> I suspect oe-selftest needs to be adjusted for this change.
> 
> Please run "oe-selftest -r wic" to ensure all tests pass.
>
I've just run all wic tests in the branch with your changes - everything
works, no breakages.

Acked-by: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>

> > Cc: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Matt Porter <mporter at konsulko.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/common.wks.inc                   | 2 +-
> >  scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-bootloader-config.cfg | 8 ++++----
> >  scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks           | 2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/common.wks.inc b/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/common.wks.inc
> > index 5cf2fd1..89880b4 100644
> > --- a/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/common.wks.inc
> > +++ b/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/common.wks.inc
> > @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
> >  # This file is included into 3 canned wks files from this directory
> >  part /boot --source bootimg-pcbios --ondisk sda --label boot --active --align 1024
> > -part / --source rootfs --ondisk sda --fstype=ext4 --label platform --align 1024
> > +part / --source rootfs --use-uuid --fstype=ext4 --label platform --align 1024
> > diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-bootloader-config.cfg b/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-bootloader-config.cfg
> > index d5a07d2..c58e74a 100644
> > --- a/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-bootloader-config.cfg
> > +++ b/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/directdisk-bootloader-config.cfg
> > @@ -12,16 +12,16 @@ DEFAULT Graphics console boot
> >  
> >  LABEL Graphics console boot
> >  KERNEL /vmlinuz
> > -APPEND label=boot root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
> > +APPEND label=boot rootwait
> >  
> >  LABEL Serial console boot
> >  KERNEL /vmlinuz
> > -APPEND label=boot root=/dev/sda2 rootwait console=ttyS0,115200
> > +APPEND label=boot rootwait console=ttyS0,115200
> >  
> >  LABEL Graphics console install
> >  KERNEL /vmlinuz
> > -APPEND label=install root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
> > +APPEND label=install rootwait
> >  
> >  LABEL Serial console install
> >  KERNEL /vmlinuz
> > -APPEND label=install root=/dev/sda2 rootwait console=ttyS0,115200
> > +APPEND label=install rootwait console=ttyS0,115200
> > diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks b/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks
> > index db30bbc..1f8466a 100644
> > --- a/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks
> > +++ b/scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks
> > @@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
> >  
> >  include common.wks.inc
> >  
> > -bootloader  --timeout=0  --append="vga=0 uvesafb.mode_option=640x480-32 root=/dev/sda2 rw mem=256M ip=192.168.7.2::192.168.7.1:255.255.255.0 oprofile.timer=1 rootfstype=ext4 "
> > +bootloader  --timeout=0  --append="vga=0 uvesafb.mode_option=640x480-32 rw mem=256M ip=192.168.7.2::192.168.7.1:255.255.255.0 oprofile.timer=1 rootfstype=ext4 "
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.1.4
> > 
> 
> -- 
> --
> Regards,
> Ed
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Regards,
Ed



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