Bug 1813311 - Document UEFI HTTP boot provisioning
Summary: Document UEFI HTTP boot provisioning
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Documentation
Version: 6.8.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: 6.8.0
Assignee: Sergei Petrosian
QA Contact: Roman Plevka
Suyog Sainkar
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Depends On: 1619274
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-03-13 14:07 UTC by Lukas Zapletal
Modified: 2020-08-12 12:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-08-12 12:58:02 UTC
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Description Lukas Zapletal 2020-03-13 14:07:46 UTC
Satellite 6 supports HTTP UEFI Boot provisioning for some time now, but there were some bugs in Grub2 bootloader which prevented from using that on RHEL7-based HTTPBOOT Capsule. This is now fixed and will be in future version of RHEL7, therefore we should make sure that those are documented.

The HTTP UEFI provisioning process is the same as PXE process, the only difference is that PXE loader must be set to "Grub2 UEFI" and a capsule with HTTPBoot feature must be associate with the provisioning subnet. Other than that, everything works out of box including Discovery.

We need to make two notes:

SecureBoot is known to work, but not officially supported. KExec (PXE-less) discovery does not work in SecureBoot.

Capsule with HTTPBoot feature must be installed on RHEL 7.9 or newer with the latest grub2 package from updates repository.

Comment 7 Lukas Zapletal 2020-06-11 11:36:02 UTC
Hello, the content is here. It only needs to be structured in the standardized way but it's tested and verified: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-documentation/pull/116/files

Comment 11 Sergei Petrosian 2020-07-01 15:00:30 UTC
The draft of the documentation is ready for QE review:
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-documentation/pull/203

The draft is waiting for a QE person to be assigned to review the docs.

Comment 17 Sergei Petrosian 2020-08-12 12:58:02 UTC
The changes are live on the 6.8-beta branch and are ready to be published with the Beta docs.


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