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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ben Nemec
c98a17222f Refactor deploy ramdisk to allow use of targetcli
RHEL 7 does not ship tgtadm or tgtd so they cannot be used in the
deploy ramdisk.  This change separates the tgt-specific parts of
the ramdisk into their own element, and adds a new one that supports
targetcli instead.

For now, the tgt implementation can only be used with traditional
busybox ramdisks and the targetcli one can only be used with dracut.
This is because dracut is primarily used for RHEL right now so it
makes sense to keep the dependencies simple.  If there is a future
desire to mix and match the implementations that could be done, but
it would require users to explicitly select between tgt and
targetcli.

Change-Id: I4f99c91016287e08d836095c2f2261de8b45abdc
Co-Authored-By: James Slagle <jslagle@redhat.com>
2015-03-18 11:42:00 -05:00
Ben Nemec
eed30adc48 Enable dracut deploy ramdisks
The element builds dracut from source on Ubuntu because the
Ubuntu dracut package is broken and very old, so it can't be
installed properly and causes a number of other issues that
are fixed by using a newer version of Dracut.

This initial version should work in virtualized environments.
Further validation of its suitability for real baremetal
deployments will need to be done in the future, but this should
be sufficient to enable that work.

Regarding Dracut specifically, in order to limit the changes
needed in the existing scripts this element continues to use a
cut down version of the /init script that we were building for the
existing ramdisk.  However, instead of running it as pid 0 it is
run as a Dracut pre-mount hook.  This allows Dracut to set up all
of the hardware and system bits, while falling early enough in the
Dracut sequence to complete the deployment before Dracut would try
to boot off the hard disk.

bp tripleo-juno-dracut-ramdisks
Change-Id: I144c8993fe040169f440bd4f7a428fdbe3d745cf
2014-10-17 21:44:09 -05:00