Bug 1227194
| Summary: | use "p" as delimiter for NVMe devices | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Vaughan Cao <vaughan.cao> | ||||
| Component: | grub | Assignee: | David Kaspar // Dee'Kej <deekej> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | Petr Bokoc <pbokoc> | ||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6.7 | CC: | jbyers, pholica, vaughan.cao | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Known Issue | |||||
| Doc Text: |
*GRUB* does not support NVMe devices
Non-volatile memory NVM Express (NVMe) devices are not supported by the *GRUB* boot loader in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and therefore the boot loader can't be installed on these devices.
To work around the problem, you can:
* Use another storage device to install the boot loader
* Upgrade to RHEL 7, which uses *GRUB2* as the default boot loader and supports installation to NVMe devices
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| Last Closed: | 2017-12-06 12:04:22 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 1356047 | ||||||
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Hello, can you please try if grub-install works instead of running grub shell? If not, then we can try to fix grub-install script. If it works, please use grub-install, instead of the grub shell. Still no reply from the reporter, moving this to RHEL-6.10. I ran into the same problem, and 'grub-install' did not work for me either. I had to make a private version of the package using the patch the reporter provided, which then worked. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available. The official life cycle policy can be reviewed here: http://redhat.com/rhel/lifecycle This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical requirement, please contact Red Hat Customer Support to request a re-evaluation of the issue, citing a clear business justification. Note that a strong business justification will be required for re-evaluation. Red Hat Customer Support can be contacted via the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following URL: https://access.redhat.com/ |
Created attachment 1033604 [details] use "p" as delimiter for NVMe devices Description of problem: Install grub on a partitioned nvme device failed with "No such partition" reported. It's because grub install determines the NVMe device partition as /dev/nvme0n11 instead of /dev/nvme0n1p1, since it doesn't use "p" as the delimiter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.97-94 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Install grub on a partitioned nvme device failed. # grub --device-map=/opt/oracle.cellos/tmpl/usbMap_nvme --verbose Attempt to open drive 0x80 (/dev/nvme0n1) Attempt to open drive 0x81 (/dev/nvme1n1) grub> root (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal) Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/grub.conf "... failed Error 22t: No such partition Actual results: grub install failed Expected results: succeed Additional info: I made a patch to fix it attached.