Bug 2212947 - [Bug] Unattended/Automated ReaR recovery does not work for UEFI systems [NEEDINFO]
Summary: [Bug] Unattended/Automated ReaR recovery does not work for UEFI systems
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rear
Version: 7.9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Pavel Cahyna
QA Contact: CS System Management SST QE
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-06-06 16:41 UTC by ppaddhar
Modified: 2023-06-06 17:43 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Github rear rear issues 2970 0 None open Automate ReaR with GRUB w/o user intervention (ISO_DEFAULT not supported for GRUB) 2023-06-06 16:57:12 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-159108 0 None None None 2023-06-06 16:46:47 UTC

Description ppaddhar 2023-06-06 16:41:34 UTC
Description of problem:
ReaR backup does not recover UEFI systems with unattended/automatic recovery. 

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a sample Rear backup with below additional options in UEFI systems : 
~~~
ISO_RECOVER_MODE="unattended"
ISO_DEFAULT="automatic"
~~~

2. Boot the backup ISO to recover system automatically. 

Actual results:
When boot with Default Label in menu with 5 seconds timeout, systems drops at recovery mode to login and perform `rear recover` manually.

Expected results:
It should boot in default Label and perform rear recover and automated reboot with given 30 seconds timeout. (Same as in BIOS systems)

Additional info:
Rear version is Rear 2.4

Comment 5 Pavel Cahyna 2023-06-06 16:57:13 UTC
Yes. Unfortunately, these options are heavily dependent on bootloader (GRUB, SYSLINUX - BIOS systems use SYSLINUX, EFI systems use GRUB) and also on OUTPUT (would be nice to have similar feature for OUTPUT=USB, for example).


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