Bug 820680

Your kickstart file does not appear to be attached.  Also, please attach /tmp/anaconda.log and /tmp/program.log.  These will be in /var/log/anaconda after installation is complete.

Created attachment 583804 [details]
The working kickstart file

Hi,

thanks for your quick reply. I have now some updates.

This is not a bug in the release, but some missing Documentation.

On the Page http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html

At the part or partition definition these are documented supported values: 

--fstype= — Sets the file system type for the partition. Valid values are xfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, vfat, and hfs.

It seems as there is the  fstype 'efi' missing, this is required for anaconda to create the grub config file.

After setting this as fstype instead of vfat, the directory structure remains the same, but fortunately UEFI is able to find /efi/redhat/grub.efi and the grub config is present.

So i think it would be very helpful to include this in the documentation.

For documentation i have previously attached our working kickstart file. This was used to setup the machine with complete EFI support and native UEFI boot. Hopefully this helps some people.

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(In reply to comment #4)

> --fstype= — Sets the file system type for the partition. Valid values are
> xfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, vfat, and hfs.
> 
> It seems as there is the  fstype 'efi' missing, this is required for
> anaconda to create the grub config file.
> 
> After setting this as fstype instead of vfat, the directory structure
> remains the same, but fortunately UEFI is able to find /efi/redhat/grub.efi
> and the grub config is present.
> 
> So i think it would be very helpful to include this in the documentation.
> 

Thanks for reporting this, Christian. Does this fix address all of the concerns in your original report?

Due to our 6.3 documentation schedule, I will incorporate the fstype 'efi' into the 6.4 Installation Guide.

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> 
> > --fstype= — Sets the file system type for the partition. Valid values are
> > xfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, vfat, and hfs.
> > 
> > It seems as there is the  fstype 'efi' missing, this is required for
> > anaconda to create the grub config file.
> > 
> > After setting this as fstype instead of vfat, the directory structure
> > remains the same, but fortunately UEFI is able to find /efi/redhat/grub.efi
> > and the grub config is present.
> > 
> > So i think it would be very helpful to include this in the documentation.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for reporting this, Christian. Does this fix address all of the
> concerns in your original report?
> 
> Due to our 6.3 documentation schedule, I will incorporate the fstype 'efi'
> into the 6.4 Installation Guide.

Hi Jack,

thanks for your reply.

This was the only change i made with parameters not contained in the documentation.

The other required change was the bootloader statement:

bootloader --location=partition --driveorder=sda

I don´t know if this implies any changes to the bootloader install process, but i guess it should be also documented to use --location=partition in conjunction with UEFI.

Great, thanks Christian. For the 6.4 edition of the guide, I'll edit the description of the location argument for the bootloader kickstart option to state that specifying the partition is necessary for UEFI systems.

This bug has been verified and implemented for 6.4, so I am changing the status to CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE.