Description of problem: Provision VM from PXE, with a rhel7.4 image from pxe server, In the provision dialog customize tab: a rhel7.4 customized template was selected (attached "rhel7.4_customize_ template"), and in addition a root password was inserted in upper side of this dialog window. The result was the same for both CFME-5.7.4.1 & CFME-5.8.2.3: The rhel7.4 was installed, then after post installation stage, the VM was rebooted, however after reboot, VM failed to load from the hard disk on: Error: No configuration file found (attached screen shot of the VM console) On CFME side, the provision request ended up successfully, since it was waiting for VM power off, and that stage did take place. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): CFME-5.8.2.3, CFME-5.7.4.1/RHV-4.1.7 How reproducible: 100% Expected results: 1. VM installed from PXE should boot successfully, after installation. 2. ON CFME side, the VM provision request should not end up successfully, in such case, of VM failing to boot after installation & reboot.
Created attachment 1358053 [details] rhel7.4_customize_template
Created attachment 1358054 [details] provisioned_VM_boot_failure.png
After investigating the issue, along with dpinhas from eng-ops, He found the problem was with the CFME customize template (the kickstart file we use, for the installation) He changed the bootloader settings, ans that resolved the issue: bootloader --timeout=3 --extlinux => bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet" Now the VM provisioned from pxe, with the rhel7.4, along with the customize template kickstart is installed & then boots the OS just fine. Oved, Can we resolve the expected result 2., mentioned in the description?
We can't. As far as we're concerned it was booted correctly.
Closing the bug, as the root cause was wrong bootloder in the kickstart file.