Bug 5018

Summary: Improve the minimal installer in OE and fix bugs in it
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen>
Component: coreAssignee: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Undecided CC: dvhart, liezhi.yang, mark.hatle, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, sgw, yi.zhao
Version: 1.4   
Target Milestone: 1.5 M4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 4075    

Description Chen Qi 2013-08-16 02:36:12 UTC 
The current minimal installer in OE has some bugs and flaws. Please see details below.

1. The hard drive searching process only searches 'hda' 'hdb' 'sda' 'sdb' 'mmcblk0' and 'mmcblk1'. If a hard dirve with the name 'hdc' is available, it will not be recognized. Besides, it doesn't support installing into a removable media like USB.

2. The naming of the intermediate directory is not descriptive enough. For example, /ssd serves as mount point for both the root partition and boot partition. A renaming is needed for future maintance work.

3. The boot partition was created but there was no corresponding entry in /etc/fstab. Besides, even if the boot partition is mounted, there will be odd directory hierarchy like /boot/boot/grub/. It should be /boot/grub.

//Chen Qi