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Bug 1401443 - The /boot and /boot/efi will be put on local disk when choosing a remote disk as boot device on UEFI machine
Summary: The /boot and /boot/efi will be put on local disk when choosing a remote disk...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 8.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
high
Target Milestone: alpha
: 8.1
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-05 09:41 UTC by Qin Yuan
Modified: 2023-09-14 03:35 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-12-01 07:27:43 UTC
Type: Bug
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Screenshot of partitioning (131.70 KB, application/x-gzip)
2016-12-05 09:41 UTC, Qin Yuan 		no flags Details
/var/log*,/tmp/* (423.37 KB, application/x-gzip)
2016-12-05 09:42 UTC, Qin Yuan 		no flags Details
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Description Qin Yuan 2016-12-05 09:41:51 UTC 
Created attachment 1228019 [details]
Screenshot of partitioning

Description of problem:
For UEFI machine having remote disks, like iSCSI or FC, choose a local disk and a remote disk to install RHVH, set the remote disk as boot device, then select "I will configure partitioning" and "click here to create them automatically", the /boot and /boot/efi will be put on the local disk, not on the remote disk.

If choose "Automatically configure partitioning", the partitioning result is correct, the /boot and /boot/efi are put on the remote disk.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHVH-4.0-20161130.1-RHVH-x86_64-dvd1.iso
imgbased-0.8.10-0.1.el7ev.noarch


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHVH via interactive anaconda on an UEFI machine having remote disks.
2. Go to the INSTALLATION DESTINATION page.
3. Select a local disk and a remote disk.
4. Open "Full disk summary and boot loader.." at the bottom
5. Set the remote disk as boot device.
6. Choose "I will configure partitioning", and click Done.
7. Go to MANUAL PARTITIONING page, select LVM Thin Provisioning
8. Click "Click here to create them automatically"


Actual results:
After step8, /boot and /boot/efi are put on the local disk.

Expected results:
After step8, /boot and /boot/efi can be put on the remote disk which is set to be the boot device.

Additional info:
This issue also occurred on RHVH 4.0.5
Comment 1 Qin Yuan 2016-12-05 09:42:25 UTC 
Created attachment 1228020 [details]
/var/log*,/tmp/*
Comment 3 Fabian Deutsch 2016-12-06 16:30:25 UTC 
Shouldn't this only work with ibft?
Comment 4 Qin Yuan 2016-12-07 02:31:46 UTC 
I test on FC UEFI machine and iSCSI UEFI machine, they both have the same issue as described in the bug.
So, I think it may not related to ibft.
Comment 5 Fabian Deutsch 2016-12-07 08:24:47 UTC 
Radek, could this be the intended behavior? That a local disk is required?
Comment 6 Radek Vykydal 2016-12-14 10:56:51 UTC 
Seems like a bug, might be related to https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/issues/800.
I'll look into it.
Comment 7 Radek Vykydal 2016-12-20 12:15:59 UTC 
Can you point us to the compose we could use to reproduce the issue? From the description logs it is with anaconda 21.48.22.56-6-6 and Blivet 0.61.15.37.
Also pointer to your repository with patches added to 7.2 anaconda (21.48.22.56) could be useful.
Are you able to reproduce with 7.3 anaconda (21.48.22.93)? Not sure if you are using it anywhere.
Comment 9 Fabian Deutsch 2016-12-20 13:49:31 UTC 
I'm quite sure that we are still seeing this issue in the build in comment 8.
Comment 10 Ryan Barry 2016-12-20 14:09:33 UTC 
(In reply to Radek Vykydal from comment #7)
> Can you point us to the compose we could use to reproduce the issue? From
> the description logs it is with anaconda 21.48.22.56-6-6 and Blivet
> 0.61.15.37.
> Also pointer to your repository with patches added to 7.2 anaconda
> (21.48.22.56) could be useful.
> Are you able to reproduce with 7.3 anaconda (21.48.22.93)? Not sure if you
> are using it anywhere.

We forked it here: https://github.com/evol262/anaconda

But primarily, this was a couple of backports for iSCSI related issues, and adding an installclass for RHV-H.

This is definitely still reproducible on 7.3
Comment 12 Sandro Bonazzola 2018-11-28 10:50:39 UTC 
this missed 7.4 (and 7.5 and 7.6). Can we have a target release for this to be fixed? 7.6.z? 7.7?
Comment 13 Sandro Bonazzola 2019-06-14 07:13:08 UTC 
missed 7.7, re-trying with 8.1 for RHV 4.4
Comment 14 Sandro Bonazzola 2020-03-18 11:21:04 UTC 
Not tracking this for RHV 4.4 anymore
Comment 17 RHEL Program Management 2020-12-01 07:27:43 UTC 
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.
Comment 18 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 03:35:35 UTC 
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days
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