Bug 1248121 - RFE: List only UEFI compatible OSes in efidefault menu
Summary: RFE: List only UEFI compatible OSes in efidefault menu
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1087090
Alias: None
Product: Beaker
Classification: Retired
Component: lab controller
Version: develop
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: beaker-dev-list
QA Contact: tools-bugs
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-07-29 16:01 UTC by David Galloway
Modified: 2015-07-29 16:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-07-29 16:13:42 UTC
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Description David Galloway 2015-07-29 16:01:52 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently, the UEFI efidefault menu lists all the same distros SYSLINUX' beaker_menu has.  It doesn't appear to be possible to structure the efidefault menu with submenus/trees as with SYSLINUX.  This makes selecting a desired OS cumbersome when provisioning over a console connection.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system set in DHCP to use grub efi bootloader
2. See huge list of distros.  Some of which aren't UEFI-compatible
3. Spend minutes holding down the arrow key until you see your desired OS

Actual results:
All imported distros are listed in efidefault menu

Expected results:
Only distros compatible with UEFI booting would be listed (RHEL6, RHEL7, and Fedora18+)

A possible solution to this would be to add some code to pxemenu.py to only manage applicable distros in the efidefault menu.

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Comment 2 David Galloway 2015-07-29 16:13:42 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1087090 ***


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