Bug 1973314

Summary: [4.9] Openshift Installer| UEFI mode | BM hosts have BIOS halted
Product: OpenShift Container Platform Reporter: Marius Cornea <mcornea>
Component: assisted-installerAssignee: Flavio Percoco <fpercoco>
assisted-installer sub component: Installer QA Contact: Alexander Chuzhoy <sasha>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA Docs Contact:
Severity: urgent    
Priority: urgent CC: agurenko, amccrae, aos-bugs, augol, bdonahue, bfournie, bgilbert, bootloader-eng-team, cwilkers, derekh, dgilmore, dhellmann, dtantsur, fmartine, fpercoco, grajaiya, jkreger, jpoulin, kiran, lshilin, lszubowi, mgourin, miabbott, nkononov, ohochman, peterm, pjones, racedoro, sbaker, sdodson, tsedovic, walters, yjoseph, ykashtan, yobshans
Version: 4.8Keywords: AutomationBlocker, TestBlocker, Triaged
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Target Release: 4.9.0   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: AI-Team-Platform
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Clone Of: 1972213
: 1976079 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-10-18 17:35:03 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1966129, 1972213, 1976074    
Bug Blocks: 1970632, 1971018, 1976079    

Comment 1 Marius Cornea 2021-06-17 15:47:41 UTC
I was able to reproduce the same BIOS issue when trying to deploy an SNO node on a DELL R740 machine.

Cloning this BZ as it looks like we need the same Ironic Python Agent workaround implemented in the assisted-installer ISO. Derek Higgins proposed a patch at https://github.com/openshift/assisted-installer/pull/313/

Comment 2 Chandler Wilkerson 2021-06-18 16:36:43 UTC
I have also run into this issue with both the 4.8 and 4.7 baremetal installers on Dell M630 nodes in our lab.

My work-around at the moment is to use the system settings (BIOS) menu to disable the RHEL and ironic1 UEFI boot entries. Install is able to proceed at that point.
Once the system is reinstalled, I am able to use efibootmgr -B -b <4 digit hex> to delete those same extraneous entries.

I observed that while these entries are present, booting from a virtual CDROM fails. (Related to Derek Higgins' comment 61 from the original BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1966129#c61)

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2021-10-18 17:35:03 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.0 bug fix and security update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3759