RHBA-2018:2928 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Red Hat Satellite 6 Foreman Discovery Image 6.4 Release

Description

The Foreman Discovery Image is a tool for booting bare metal hosts into the Satellite inventory for use at a later date. This update provides Satellite 6.4 upgrades for this image. For the full list of new features provided by Satellite 6.4, see the Release Notes linked to in the references section. See the Satellite 6 Installation Guide for detailed instructions on how to install a new Satellite 6.4 environment, or the Satellite 6 Upgrading and Updating guide for detailed instructions on how to upgrade from prior versions of Satellite 6.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1560003 - FDI does not boot on HyperV Gen2 VM due to missing SCSI driver in initram disk
• BZ - 1578290 - Unify kernel and initramdisk path with upstream
• BZ - 1585575 - Add nomodeset to default kernel option for syslinux/grub2
• BZ - 1598020 - Rebase discovery image to 3.5.2
• BZ - 1611525 - mkdir: cannot create directory ‘fdi-image’: File exists while installing discovery image
• BZ - 1611541 - Broken symlink for initrd0.img and vmlinuz0
• BZ - 1611547 - Discovery failed with error : cannot load such file -- facter
• BZ - 1628944 - Script discovery-remaster creates empty/corrupted ISO

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.4/html/release_notes/