While discussing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331317 , it was noted that we could catch bugs of this type in openQA if we had tests which tried to boot the ISOs as disks (rather than as CD/DVD). I'm not sure off the top of my head if you can tell os-autoinst to do this, but if not, we could send patches. It'd be nice to catch this kind of problem in automation so we know when it breaks.
Metadata Update from @adamwill: - Issue tagged with: newtest
Note: I thought about the way to implement this a bit, and I think I can see two different ways to do it. It's a slightly interesting question that can maybe teach a bit about how the scheduling works...@pschindl :)
Is this still relevant, @adamwill?
Yeah, it is, I just somehow never find ten minutes to do it. It should be very trivial, IIRC I actually noticed a few weeks back that there's a variable to tell openQA to do exactly this.
So, I have just found the time and went over the OpenQA manual, do you think that I made a hit when found this? :crocodile:
USBBOOT: when set to 1, the image will be loaded through an emulated USB stick.
USBBOOT
If this is what needs to be done? Which flavours do we want to set this for? Currently nothing like that is set in the templates, @adamwill.
Yeah, I think that's the one. I guess we'd want to do an install-and-boot test with that variable set for one live image and one installer image.
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