Bug 1005833 - System w/o TPM module fails to boot when tboot is installed
Summary: System w/o TPM module fails to boot when tboot is installed
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: tboot
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Tony Camuso
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Blocks: 972747 1269638
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Reported: 2013-09-09 13:16 UTC by Alexander Todorov
Modified: 2015-10-07 19:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-10-06 10:59:42 UTC
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Description Alexander Todorov 2013-09-09 13:16:17 UTC 
Description of problem:

On a KVM guest:

In a default install select tboot package from the optional packages list (Base->Base->Optional->tboot). Complete the install. 

tboot is installed, 
grub.conf is configured to use tboot

system fails to boot, can't find rootfs volume. 


According to our test case this is a bug!
Comment 2 Samantha N. Bueno 2013-09-18 18:49:59 UTC 
I'm not sure I really understand your test case--why are you trying to install tboot on a machine without a TPM module?
Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2013-09-19 10:38:03 UTC 
(In reply to Samantha N. Bueno from comment #2)
> I'm not sure I really understand your test case--why are you trying to
> install tboot on a machine without a TPM module?

We install @everything and then upgrade. It so happens that tboot goes into the transaction as well. 

I don't understand why tboot always tries to be the default kernel and why it simply doesn't skip over to Linux when there's no TPS module present.
Comment 6 Tony Camuso 2015-10-02 17:06:40 UTC 
RHEL6.6 is using tboot v1.8.2.

Does this problem persist in RHEL6.6?
Comment 8 Alexander Todorov 2015-10-06 10:59:19 UTC 
tboot-1.8.1-1 is in RHEL 6.7. Following the instructions from comment #0 the result is: system was able to boot. Closing.
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