tools/create-gce-image.sh: revert loop to nbd

loop devices are nice, but unfortunately this creates images
that does not boot on GCE. Reason is unclear.
Revert back to nbd for now.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/tools/create-gce-image.sh b/tools/create-gce-image.sh
index 834aa7b76..be1d0c889 100755
--- a/tools/create-gce-image.sh
+++ b/tools/create-gce-image.sh
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@
 # Prerequisites:
 # - you need a user-space system, a basic Debian system can be created with:
 #   sudo debootstrap --include=openssh-server,curl,tar,gcc,libc6-dev,time,strace,sudo,less,psmisc,selinux-utils,policycoreutils,checkpolicy,selinux-policy-default stable debian
-# - you need grub and maybe something else:
+# - you need qemu-nbd, grub and maybe something else:
 #   sudo apt-get install qemu-utils grub-efi
+# - you need nbd support in kernel
 # - you need kernel to use with image (e.g. arch/x86/boot/bzImage)
 #   note: kernel modules are not supported
 #
@@ -59,17 +60,21 @@ if [ "$(basename $2)" != "bzImage" ]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
+# Clean up after previous unsuccessful run.
+sudo umount disk.mnt || true
+sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0 || true
 rm -rf disk.mnt disk.raw || true
+
+sudo modprobe nbd
 fallocate -l 2G disk.raw
-echo -en "o\nn\np\n1\n\n\na\nw\n" | sudo fdisk disk.raw
-LODEV="$(sudo losetup -f --show -P disk.raw)"
-LODEVPART=$LODEV"p1"
-CLEANUP="sudo losetup -d $LODEV; $CLEANUP"
-until [ -e $LODEVPART ]; do sleep 1; done
-sudo mkfs.ext4 $LODEVPART
+sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 --format=raw disk.raw
+CLEANUP="sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0; $CLEANUP"
+echo -en "o\nn\np\n1\n\n\na\nw\n" | sudo fdisk /dev/nbd0
+until [ -e /dev/nbd0p1 ]; do sleep 1; done
+sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/nbd0p1
 mkdir -p disk.mnt
 CLEANUP="rm -rf disk.mnt; $CLEANUP"
-sudo mount $LODEVPART disk.mnt
+sudo mount /dev/nbd0p1 disk.mnt
 CLEANUP="sudo umount disk.mnt; $CLEANUP"
 sudo cp -a $1/. disk.mnt/.
 sudo cp $2 disk.mnt/vmlinuz
@@ -132,7 +137,4 @@ menuentry 'linux' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
 	linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=serial vsyscall=native rodata=n ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu oops=panic panic_on_warn=1 nmi_watchdog=panic panic=86400 $CMDLINE
 }
 EOF
-sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=disk.mnt/boot --no-floppy $LODEV
-#sudo umount disk.mnt
-#rm -rf disk.mnt
-#sudo losetup -d $LODEV
+sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=disk.mnt/boot --no-floppy /dev/nbd0