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1. Feature Overview: Feature Id: [70053] a. Name of Feature: [LTC 6.2 FEAT] RHEL 6 enhance for uEFI boot as default b. Feature Description To enhance the bootability of RHEL 6 after user loading the default setting of uEFI BIOS. There is one usability concern to the current RHEL 6, that is, it will fail to boot after uEFI load default settings in the BIOS. This is not OS bug, but we recommand to add a mechanism to enhance the usability. For more details, please refer to Bug 68472 - RCP404982- RHEL 6 EFI OS can not boot after uEFI load default settings 2. Feature Details: Sponsor: --- Architectures: x86_64, Arch Specificity: --- Affects Kernel Modules: No Delivery Mechanism: LDP Deliverable Category: other Request Type: Other d. Upstream Acceptance: --- Sponsor Priority P1 f. Severity: high IBM Confidential: No Code Contribution: --- g. Component Version Target: --- 3. Business Case All systems now ship with UEFI as the default - regressing to legacy BIOS functions is becoming quickly obsolete. 4. Primary contact at Red Hat: John Jarvis, jjarvis 5. Primary contacts at Partner: Project Management Contact: Timothy P. Noonan, tpnoonan.com Technical contact(s): KELVIN SHIEH, kshieh.com
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This feature will not make 6.2 and has been moved to the 6.3 list for consideration at that time.
------- Comment From mknutson.com 2011-08-18 09:24 EDT------- re-targeting to 6.3
What specifically are you asking for here? We need a lot more details on this request before it can be evaluated as a possibility.
Peter: FYI, IBM's Bugzilla currently has a bug in it that clears the NEEDINFO field without the IBM folks seeing it. I'm sending email to my contacts to get your questions answered.
------- Comment From mknutson.com 2012-03-23 09:54 EDT------- pjones@redhat..... Not sure if Kelvin, or Kevin got the needinfo request. All x86 based IBM systems for the past few years run using UEFI - not legacy mode (BIOS). We need the Default boot option in RHEL to use UEFI first and always and to function flawlessly - and not jump to legacy mode (BIOS) first. (or ever if possible) We will eventually drop the BIOS legacy setting in systems and need UEFI running perfectly before that happens. Please set UEFI as the default for first boot and complete RH internal testing using UEFI always in any situation. We and other vendors have provided plenty of HW for you to use to fully implement this industry standard. Any other questions please feel free to ask. Monte
------- Comment From tpnoonan.com 2012-04-20 18:09 EDT------- per john jarvis in 4/20 meeting unlikely to make 6.3, marking rejected
------- Comment From jmtt.com 2012-05-29 18:15 EDT------- (In reply to comment #16) > per john jarvis in 4/20 meeting unlikely to make 6.3, marking rejected Changing to DEFERRED per the above comment, and discussion in today's Monte confcall.