| Summary: | RHEL6.9 installed in UEFI mode can't create boot entry in NVRAM on Lenovo Purley platform | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Neo Cui <cuilj2> | ||||
| Component: | efibootmgr | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 6.9 | CC: | cuilj2, fchen16, hehy1, jkachuck, laokunlun.tech, mknutson, pjones, tumeya, yangyg3 | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2017-04-05 21:08:59 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: | |||||
| Bug Depends On: | |||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 1415214, 1438054 | ||||||
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Description
Neo Cui
2016-12-12 10:01:38 UTC
I can boot the OS from BIOS - "Boot from file" or "Add the UEFI boot path manually". When I boot into OS, I found that there is a boot entry variable Boot0003xxxx which is related to Network devices created by BIOS. It's size is 3.3k large than 1k size limitation. So I think it's this variable affected the creation of RHEL6.9 boot entry. But I can't figure out the root cause in the efibootmgr source code. So I need help from Red Hat. Hello Lenovo, Please boot the system in rescue mode. Create and attach a sosreport from this mode. This this give us the anaconda logs and additional information that will assist in working this issue. Thank You Joe Kachuck Hello Lenovo, Please also confirm is this is the same issue as: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401776 Thank You Joe Kachuck (In reply to Joseph Kachuck from comment #5) > Hello Lenovo, > Please also confirm is this is the same issue as: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401776 > > Thank You > Joe Kachuck I don't think it is the same issue. One is boot entry creation problem. The other one is ACPI issue. I think you may paste a wrong bug number. Hello Lenovo, Please boot the system in rescue mode. Create and attach a sosreport from this mode. This this give us the anaconda logs and additional information that will assist in working this issue. Thank You Joe Kachuck Created attachment 1231941 [details]
sosreport file
The sosreport md5 is 0db777cf181dcc455ae4eb2b38ca8f3b Can you help us understand the detailed OS handling: 1. If Boot#### exist and less than 1K size, BIOS will return EFI_SUCCESS(0) 2. If Boot#### not exist, BIOS will return EFI_NOT_FOUND(0x8000000E) 3. If Boot#### exist and larger than 1K size, BIOS will return EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL(0x80000005) How do OS handle these 3 cases respectively? Hello, Due to were are for the RHEL 6.9 release. This will not make RHEL 6.9. This is being moved to RHEL 6.10. Thank You Joe Kachuck (In reply to Joseph Kachuck from comment #11) > Hello, > Due to were are for the RHEL 6.9 release. This will not make RHEL 6.9. This > is being moved to RHEL 6.10. > > Thank You > Joe Kachuck Hi Joseph, Do you mean RHEL 6.10 will introduce the new EFI variable interface - efivarfs? Hello Lenovo, Please confirm to correct this issue. It would be required to add a new EFI variable interface? This is something that was not included in RHEL 6.x previously? At current this is requested for RHEL 6.10. Thank You Joe Kachuck (In reply to Joseph Kachuck from comment #13) > Hello Lenovo, > Please confirm to correct this issue. It would be required to add a new EFI > variable interface? This is something that was not included in RHEL 6.x > previously? > > At current this is requested for RHEL 6.10. > > Thank You > Joe Kachuck Hi Joseph, This defect is caused by 1K size limitation of EFI variable. If there is a boot entry variable large than 1K, the defect will occur. So the new EFI variable interface - efivarfs should be introduced in kernel. It would better if it can be fixed in RHEL 6.9. If there is no possibility to fix this defect in RHEL 6.9, please add the request in 6.10. Thanks~ The 1KB variable problem had been fixed in previous version. * Thu Sep 04 2014 Peter Jones <pjones> - 0.5.4-12 - Display UEFI boot variables when the contents are > 1024 bytes Resolves: rhbz#1121782 Hello, RHEL 6 has entered Phase 3. In phase 3 only Critical impact Security Advisories and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories will be accepted. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata At current this BZ does not meet these requirements. I am closing this BZ as WONTFIX. Please reopen if this fix is required for RHEL 6. If so please also provide a justification for this fix. Thank You Joe Kachuck |