Bug 2110864

Summary:	edge-installer ISO image can't boot on BIOS VM
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Xiaofeng Wang <xiaofwan>
Component:	osbuild-composer	Assignee:	Achilleas Koutsou <akoutsou>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Xiaofeng Wang <xiaofwan>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:	Eliane Ramos Pereira <elpereir>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	9.1	CC:	akoutsou, ckellner, elpereir, miabbott, obudai, perobins, probinson
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
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Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	osbuild-composer-61-1.el9	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	.RHEL for Edge installer ISO image can now boot on BIOS VM Previously, when building an RHEL for Edge installer image and booting it with ISO on a BIOS VM to install the Edge system, the image could not boot because there was no BIOS configuration support available. As a consequence, the Installation would hang when installed on the BIOS VM. This update adds support to BIOS, and as a result, boot and install Edge system without error.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2022-11-15 09:50:32 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Xiaofeng Wang 2022-07-26 04:38:31 UTC

Description of problem:
Build edge-installer image and boot with this ISO on BIOS VM to install Edge system. Can't boot with error:

Booting from DVD/CD ...
Boot Failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0009)

This ISO image can boot on UEFI VM.

After discuss with @bcl, I summary some consolutions:
1. $ sudo xorriso -indev 81dad475-5d3b-40fb-9ab7-e0e42d29b59f-installer.iso -report_el_torito plain -report_system_area plain
xorriso 1.5.4 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
No BIOS and UEFI configuration

Drive current: -indev '81dad475-5d3b-40fb-9ab7-e0e42d29b59f-installer.iso'
Media current: stdio file, overwriteable
Media status : is blank
Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 47.1g free
xorriso : NOTE : No El Torito information was loaded
xorriso : NOTE : No System Area was loaded

2. Another command have the following output:
El Torito catalog : 5191 1
El Torito cat path : /boot.catalog
El Torito images : N Pltf B Emul Ld_seg Hdpt Ldsiz LBA
El Torito boot img : 1 UEFI y none 0x0000 0x00 14168 5192
El Torito img path : 1 /images/efiboot.img
On a bios bootable image it will also have entries for
El Torito boot img : 1 BIOS y none 0x0000 0x00 4 3620
and isolinux.bin

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
osbuild-60-1.el9.noarch.rpm
osbuild-composer-57-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Deploy a RHEL 9.1 VM
2. git clone https://github.com/virt-s1/rhel-edge.git
3. OCP4_TOKEN=abcdefg QUAY_USERNAME=rhel-edge QUAY_PASSWORD=123456 ./ostree-ng.sh

Actual results:
Installation hang when install on BIOS VM due to booting issue

Expected results:
Boot and install Edge system without error.

Additional info:

Comment 4 Xiaofeng Wang 2022-08-25 14:47:40 UTC

Tested on osbuild-composer-61-1.20220825gitfb102f1.el9.x86.

Comment 7 Xiaofeng Wang 2022-08-31 03:13:02 UTC

Verified on osbuild-composer-62-1.el9.x86_64
Test result: https://github.com/virt-s1/rhel-edge/runs/8104376623?check_suite_focus=true#step:4:3739

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 09:50:32 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 (Low: Image Builder security, bug fix, and enhancement 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-2022:7950