Bug 719711

Summary: [LTC 6.2 FEAT] RHEL 6 enhance for uEFI boot as default
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.3CC: dcantrell, jjarvis, mads, nobody+PNT0273897, sbest
Target Milestone: betaKeywords: FutureFeature, OtherQA
Target Release: 6.3   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: All   
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Last Closed: 2012-05-11 19:14:23 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 704634, 705085, 756082, 761078    

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2011-07-07 18:00:19 UTC
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [70053]
a. Name of Feature: [LTC 6.2 FEAT] RHEL 6 enhance for uEFI boot as default
b. Feature Description
To enhance the bootability of RHEL 6 after user loading the default setting of uEFI BIOS.

There is one usability concern to the current RHEL 6, that is, it will fail to boot after uEFI load default settings in the BIOS. This is not OS bug, but we recommand to add a mechanism to enhance the usability.

For more details, please refer to 
Bug 68472  -  RCP404982- RHEL 6 EFI OS can not boot after uEFI load default settings

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: ---
Architectures:  x86_64, 

Arch Specificity: ---
Affects Kernel Modules: No
Delivery Mechanism: LDP Deliverable
Category: other
Request Type: Other
d. Upstream Acceptance: ---
Sponsor Priority P1
f. Severity: high
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: ---
g. Component Version Target: ---

3. Business Case
All systems now ship with UEFI as the default - regressing to legacy BIOS functions is becoming quickly obsolete. 

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis, jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Timothy P. Noonan, tpnoonan.com

Technical contact(s):
KELVIN SHIEH, kshieh.com

Comment 1 John Jarvis 2011-07-07 18:06:39 UTC
IBM is signed up to test and provide feedback, setting OtherQA.

Comment 3 John Jarvis 2011-08-17 16:08:16 UTC
This feature will not make 6.2 and has been moved to the 6.3 list for consideration at that time.

Comment 4 John Jarvis 2011-08-17 16:08:28 UTC
This feature will not make 6.2 and has been moved to the 6.3 list for consideration at that time.

Comment 5 IBM Bug Proxy 2011-08-18 13:31:53 UTC
------- Comment From mknutson.com 2011-08-18 09:24 EDT-------
re-targeting to 6.3

Comment 6 Peter Jones 2011-11-30 18:36:56 UTC
What specifically are you asking for here?  We need a lot more details on this request before it can be evaluated as a possibility.

Comment 7 John Jarvis 2011-12-07 17:06:39 UTC
Peter:  FYI, IBM's Bugzilla currently has a bug in it that clears the NEEDINFO field without the IBM folks seeing it.  I'm sending email to my contacts to get your questions answered.

Comment 9 IBM Bug Proxy 2012-03-23 14:00:36 UTC
------- Comment From mknutson.com 2012-03-23 09:54 EDT-------
pjones@redhat.....

Not sure if Kelvin, or Kevin got the needinfo request.

All x86 based IBM systems for the past few years run using UEFI - not legacy mode (BIOS).

We need the Default boot option in RHEL to use UEFI first and always and to function flawlessly - and not jump to legacy mode (BIOS) first. (or ever if possible)  We will eventually drop the BIOS legacy setting in systems and need UEFI running perfectly before that happens.

Please set UEFI as the default for first boot and complete RH internal testing using UEFI always in any situation.  We and other vendors have provided plenty of HW for you to use to fully implement this industry standard.

Any other questions please feel free to ask.

Monte

Comment 10 IBM Bug Proxy 2012-04-20 18:10:21 UTC
------- Comment From tpnoonan.com 2012-04-20 18:09 EDT-------
per john jarvis in 4/20 meeting unlikely to make 6.3, marking rejected

Comment 12 IBM Bug Proxy 2012-05-29 18:23:13 UTC
------- Comment From jmtt.com 2012-05-29 18:15 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #16)
> per john jarvis in 4/20 meeting unlikely to make 6.3, marking rejected

Changing to DEFERRED per the above comment, and discussion in today's Monte confcall.