Bug 1479099
| Summary: | grub2 bootloader launching via HTTP Boot failed with an error of "unaligned pointer" | ||||||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Neo Cui <cuilj2> | ||||||||||
| Component: | grub2 | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> | ||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> | ||||||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||||||||
| Version: | 7.4 | CC: | achen35, cuilj2, fchen16, jkachuck, jstodola, kasmith, mboisver, mknutson, pjones, Smahmoud, tbowling | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||
| Whiteboard: | Intel:1490981 | ||||||||||||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |||||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2021-03-01 07:33:36 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 Depends On: | |||||||||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 1689420, 1719882, 1776446 | ||||||||||||
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Hello Lenovo, Please attach the anaconda log from the install. Please also attach any boot log information from the fail boot. Please also attach the http logs from the https server it is attempting to boot off. Thank You Joe Kachuck Created attachment 1310977 [details]
HTTP Boot server messages log
Created attachment 1310978 [details]
apache2 access log
Created attachment 1310979 [details]
apache2 error log
(In reply to Joseph Kachuck from comment #2) > Hello Lenovo, > Please attach the anaconda log from the install. Please also attach any boot > log information from the fail boot. > > Please also attach the http logs from the https server it is attempting to > boot off. > > Thank You > Joe Kachuck Hi Joe, I have attached the http server log. There is no anaconda log and boot log as the HTTP Boot process is blocked at stage 1 (Download and execute grubx64.efi). --Neo (In reply to Joseph Kachuck from comment #2) > Hello Lenovo, > Please attach the anaconda log from the install. Please also attach any boot > log information from the fail boot. > > Please also attach the http logs from the https server it is attempting to > boot off. > > Thank You > Joe Kachuck Hi Joe, Could you provide the detail steps to test the HTTP Boot feature on RHEL 7.4. I wonder if there is mistakes I made in my test to cause this problem. Thanks~ --Neo Hello Lenovo, My understanding is Engineering is looking at this issue with Intel. I have no further updates at this time. I will let you know when I have additional updates. Thank You Joe Kachuck The issue can be reproduced with RHEL7 U5 Snapshot 5, below message show on the screen when system is trying to HTTP boot via DHCPv4
>>Checking Media Presence......
>>Media Present......
unaligned pointer 0x1fa579f8
Aborted. Press any key to exit.
Hello, RHEL 7.6 has been released. This BZ is moved to requested for RHEL 7.7. Thank You Joe Kachuck Hello Lenovo, Please confirm if this has been tested on RHEL 7.7? Thank You Joe Kachuck Could Red Hat provide the document or instruction regarding setup httpboot server on RHEL7 OS, such that we can follow to configure httpboot server. After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release. Therefore, it is being closed. If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened. |
Created attachment 1310389 [details] failure information Description of problem: HTTP Boot feature failed on RHEL 7.4 GA Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub2-efi-x64-2.02-0.64.el7.x86_64.rpm grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-2.02-0.64.el7.x86_64.rp How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a HTTP Boot server 2. Use the grubx64.efi in the grub2 rpm package as the NBP. 3. Validate the HTTP Boot function on a server with HTTP Boot function supported. Actual results: Failed to start the NBP with an error of "unaligned pointer". Expected results: Could boot the NBP and launch the RHEL 7.4 installation via HTTP Boot. Additional info: Please check the attachment for the snapshot. The address of the unaligned pointer changed every time I tried to boot the NBP.