Bug 1215693

Summary: Fix iPXE support
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Component: grub2Assignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 29CC: bcl, kevin, lkundrak, mads, pjones
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See Also: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4437
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Description Vít Ondruch 2015-04-27 13:54:10 UTC
Description of problem:
Trying to boot Fedora using iPXE from GRUB [1], it does not work. Following the manual how to add the boot menu item, the boot fails with the "kernel too old" message. Failure with similar symptoms was already reported as bug 894300.

This is probably caused due to iPXE kernel reporting its version as 1.0.0+:

$ file /boot/bfo.lkrn 
/boot/bfo.lkrn: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 1.0.0+ (a937), RO-rootFS,

$ file /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64 
/boot/vmlinuz-3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64 (mockbuild.fedoraproject., RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x5, Normal VGA

This is rather naive to check some Kernel features by its version. How many features are backported into RHEL Kernel versions? Could you please decide if required functionality is available by other means?

BTW I originally reported the issue against fedora-infrastructure [2].


[1] http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4437


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -q grub2
grub2-2.02-0.13.fc21.x86_64


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Comment 1 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:14:09 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23

Comment 2 Vít Ondruch 2015-09-01 08:02:54 UTC
Ping, any news here?

Comment 3 Vít Ondruch 2015-09-22 13:27:31 UTC
This is upstream response:

> Wed 16 Sep 2015 04:20:48 PM GMT, comment #7:
>
> linuxefi does not exist upstream; it is vendor patch and each vendor carries slightly different version. You need to raise this with Fedora; I have no way to even test it.
>
> Sorry.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 11:44:10 UTC
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Comment 5 Vít Ondruch 2016-11-25 16:05:59 UTC
This was not probably fixed ...

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 09:43:16 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2018-05-03 08:51:26 UTC
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Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 8 Vít Ondruch 2018-05-03 10:07:12 UTC
Any news here?

Comment 9 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 10:23:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:51:23 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '29'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 29 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
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Comment 11 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 19:05:23 UTC
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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