Thanks! I starting the process now. I'll let you know how it goes. pjwelsh On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 10/10/2017 01:46 PM, PJ Welsh wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to replace the vmlinuz and initrd.img from > > CentOS 7.4 with "fixed" kernel-plus versions in order create CentOS 7.4 > > VM's. So far I'm stuck booting via 7.3 install, adding new kernel-plus > > and upgrading to 7.4. I've not found any complete Google answers and was > > looking for help making sure I choose the correct approach. > > > > I've tried to build an initrd.img from a kernel-plus booting system via > > "mkinitrd -f -v /boot/initrd.img $(uname -r)", but the file size is less > > than half the one from CentOS 7.4 (17MB -vs- 47MB). I'm not even sure I > > can just replace those files yet either. > > > > Any help going the correct path? > > I have not had time to do this yet .. BUT .. you can edit the lorax > template to to use kernel-plus instead of kernel (and new repodata).. > then rerun lorax to get a bootable tree and boot.iso > > You would then need a tree with the new kernel-plus* packages instead of > the kernel-* packages > > This bug kind of explains the process: > > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13763 > > (look for lorax in the bug) > > I do want to create a process and tree somewhere for this (likely on > buildlogs.centos.org). Sometime soon after I finish the i386 distro > release (hopefully that is this week .. next week for some kind of > bootable x86_64 Xen PV solution). > > The good news is, the 7.5 RHEL kernel Source RPMs should have Kevin's > patch in it and it should work as released on Xen PV. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20171011/3b3343c5/attachment-0006.html>