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Bug 1479496 - RHEL 7.4 uEFI PXE incorrectly adds a '-' to tail end of mac address
Summary: RHEL 7.4 uEFI PXE incorrectly adds a '-' to tail end of mac address
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1483740
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: grub2
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-08 16:14 UTC by Øystein Bedin
Modified: 2017-09-19 14:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-19 14:43:42 UTC
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Description Øystein Bedin 2017-08-08 16:14:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
When PXE booting with a RHEL 7.4 image (using PXE files found in 'EFI/BOOT/' as part of the RHEL 7.4 iso), then PXE booting a physical host using uEFI, it looks for a file name with an added '-' at the end. This is new with RHEL 7.4 and it used to work fine with RHEL 7.3. This seems like a breakage as it shouldn't have the '-' at the end from what I'm gathering (see TFTP server trace below). 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 7.4

How reproducible:
Set up a PXE environment and use a uEFI physical host to PXE boot. In our case, we're PXE booting with a Lenovo Flex x240 blade server (running the latest uEFI version). 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup a PXE environment based on RHEL 7.4 with host specific grub.cfg based on MAC address
2. uEFI PXE boot a physical host 
3. Observe that the host fails to obtain the host specific grub.cfg

Actual results:
PXE boot failing to pick up the host specific grub.cfg based on MAC address.

Expected results:
uEFI PXE should work as it used to with RHEL 7.3 (and I believe per the standards it shouldn't add a '-' at the end of the filename)

Additional info:
Here's a verbose trace from the TFTP server:

Aug  8 11:51:01 util-3 in.tftpd[29880]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.49.12 filename pxelinux/bootx64.efi
Aug  8 11:51:01 util-3 in.tftpd[29880]: tftp: client does not accept options
Aug  8 11:51:01 util-3 in.tftpd[29881]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.49.12 filename pxelinux/bootx64.efi
Aug  8 11:51:01 util-3 in.tftpd[29881]: Client ::ffff:192.168.49.12 finished pxelinux/bootx64.efi
Aug  8 11:51:02 util-3 in.tftpd[29882]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.49.12 filename pxelinux/bootx64.efi
Aug  8 11:51:02 util-3 in.tftpd[29882]: Client ::ffff:192.168.49.12 finished pxelinux/bootx64.efi
Aug  8 11:51:02 util-3 in.tftpd[29883]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.49.12 filename pxelinux/grubx64.efi
Aug  8 11:51:02 util-3 in.tftpd[29883]: Client ::ffff:192.168.49.12 finished pxelinux/grubx64.efi
Aug  8 11:51:02 util-3 in.tftpd[29884]: RRQ from ::ffff:192.168.49.12 filename /pxelinux/grub.cfg-01-00-0a-f7-57-de-50-
Aug  8 11:51:02 util-3 in.tftpd[29884]: Client ::ffff:192.168.49.12 File not found /pxelinux/grub.cfg-01-00-0a-f7-57-de-50-
Comment 2 Øystein Bedin 2017-08-08 16:31:01 UTC 
Just for the record: We worked around the issue by creating symlinks in the directory (i.e.: ln -fs grub.cfg-01-<MAC> grub.cfg-01-<MAC>-), but this shouldn't be necessary.
Comment 3 Jiri Konecny 2017-08-09 08:41:44 UTC 
This issue is happening before Anaconda or Dracut is loaded.

Changing component to grub.
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