dd extlinux mbr during post as temporary workaround for bug #1147998

fedora-cloud-atomic.ks

@@ -122,6 +122,15 @@ echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
 # Note that running rpm recreates the rpm db files which aren't needed/wanted
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
+
+# This is a temporary workaround for
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147998>
+# where sfdisk seems to be messing up the mbr.
+# Long-term fix is to address this in anaconda directly and remove this.
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015931>
+dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/vda
+
+
 echo "Zeroing out empty space."
 # This forces the filesystem to reclaim space from deleted files
 dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/zeros || :

fedora-cloud-base.ks

@@ -194,6 +194,14 @@ echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
 
+# This is a temporary workaround for
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147998>
+# where sfdisk seems to be messing up the mbr.
+# Long-term fix is to address this in anaconda directly and remove this.
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015931>
+dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/vda
+
+
 echo "Fixing SELinux contexts."
 touch /var/log/cron
 touch /var/log/boot.log

fedora-cloud-bigdata.ks

@@ -200,6 +200,13 @@ echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
 # Note that running rpm recreates the rpm db files which aren't needed/wanted
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
+# This is a temporary workaround for
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147998>
+# where sfdisk seems to be messing up the mbr.
+# Long-term fix is to address this in anaconda directly and remove this.
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015931>
+dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/vda
+
 
 echo "Fixing SELinux contexts."
 touch /var/log/cron

fedora-cloud-experimental.ks

@@ -192,6 +192,14 @@ echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------"
 rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
 
+# This is a temporary workaround for
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147998>
+# where sfdisk seems to be messing up the mbr.
+# Long-term fix is to address this in anaconda directly and remove this.
+# <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015931>
+dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/vda
+
+
 echo "Fixing SELinux contexts."
 touch /var/log/cron
 touch /var/log/boot.log