Bug 1005837

Summary:	kernel boot title not indicating "with tboot"
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component:	tboot	Assignee:	Tony Camuso <tcamuso>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.5	CC:	mkovarik, pjanda, tcamuso, tlavigne
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	6.9
Hardware:	Unspecified
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Last Closed:	2016-04-15 21:09:00 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	972747, 1269638, 1272558

Description Alexander Todorov 2013-09-09 13:29:51 UTC

Description of problem:


According to QE's test case when tboot is installed and grub configured to boot the kernel with tboot the title should be updated to read something like:

title Red Hat Enterprise Linux w/ tboot (.....)


This is not the case.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-14 02:19:28 UTC

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 5 Tony Camuso 2016-03-29 15:30:29 UTC

tboot-1.8.3-2 fixes this problem.

# rpm -qa | grep -w tboot
tboot-1.8.3-3.el6.x86_64
tboot-debuginfo-1.8.3-2.el6.x86_64

# grep -i '^title.*tboot' /etc/grub.conf
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tboot (2.6.32-621.el6.x86_64)

Comment 7 Michal Kovarik 2016-04-04 09:34:23 UTC

# rpm -qa | grep -w tboot
tboot-1.8.3-2.el6.x86_64
# grep -i '^title.*tboot' /etc/grub.conf
# 

Seems that tboot-1.8.3-3 (in comment 5 rpm output) fixes this problem, but tboot-1.8.3-2 not.

Comment 8 Tony Camuso 2016-04-11 12:36:56 UTC

I'm pushing this out to 6.9, as it's unlikely that I'll be able to address it in time for 6.8.

Comment 10 Tony Camuso 2016-04-15 21:09:00 UTC

There is currently no way for the existing grub 0.97 to create a stanza indicating that it is a tboot launch. 

If the user provisions the system with tboot as one of the install options, then the user should know that his system will launch through tboot. 

If the user installs tboot after provisioning the system, s/he would have to add the tboot stanza by editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file anyway, and could indicate that it is a tboot launch in the title line of the new stanza.