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Bug 1005833

Summary: System w/o TPM module fails to boot when tboot is installed
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component: tbootAssignee: Tony Camuso <tcamuso>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version: 6.5CC: atodorov, jshortt, mganisin, tcamuso
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Last Closed: 2015-10-06 10:59:42 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Alexander Todorov 2013-09-09 13:16:17 UTC
Description of problem:

On a KVM guest:

In a default install select tboot package from the optional packages list (Base->Base->Optional->tboot). Complete the install. 

tboot is installed, 
grub.conf is configured to use tboot

system fails to boot, can't find rootfs volume. 


According to our test case this is a bug!

Comment 2 Samantha N. Bueno 2013-09-18 18:49:59 UTC
I'm not sure I really understand your test case--why are you trying to install tboot on a machine without a TPM module?

Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2013-09-19 10:38:03 UTC
(In reply to Samantha N. Bueno from comment #2)
> I'm not sure I really understand your test case--why are you trying to
> install tboot on a machine without a TPM module?

We install @everything and then upgrade. It so happens that tboot goes into the transaction as well. 

I don't understand why tboot always tries to be the default kernel and why it simply doesn't skip over to Linux when there's no TPS module present.

Comment 6 Tony Camuso 2015-10-02 17:06:40 UTC
RHEL6.6 is using tboot v1.8.2.

Does this problem persist in RHEL6.6?

Comment 8 Alexander Todorov 2015-10-06 10:59:19 UTC
tboot-1.8.1-1 is in RHEL 6.7. Following the instructions from comment #0 the result is: system was able to boot. Closing.