Description of problem: Efi boot entries can be duplicated like this: [root@ibm-hs22-04 ~]# /usr/sbin/efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 000E Timeout: 10 seconds BootOrder: 000E,000F,00D2,00C8,00C9,00C6,00C7,00CA,00CB,00CC,00CD,00CE,00CF,00D0,00D1,00D3 Boot0000* CD/DVD Rom Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,0c) Boot0001* Floppy Disk Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,00) Boot0002* Hard Disk 0 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,08) Boot0003* PXE Network Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,06) Boot0004* Hard Disk 1 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,09) Boot0005* Hard Disk 2 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,0a) Boot0006* Hard Disk 3 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,0b) Boot0007* Hard Disk 4 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,0e) Boot0008* USB Storage Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,03) Boot0009* Diagnostics Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,da) Boot000A* iSCSI Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,04) Boot000B* iSCSI Critical Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,05) Boot000C* Legacy Only Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,ee) Boot000D* Embedded Hypervisor Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,01) Boot000E* Red Hat Enterprise Linux HD(1,800,64000,cde409ee-c35d-4367-881a-5dc9b04d7452)File(\EFI\redhat\grub.efi) Boot000F* network ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(7,0)PCI(0,0)MAC(00215e99f14c,0)IPv4(0.0.0.0:0<->0.0.0.0:0,0, 0 Boot0010* CD/DVD Rom Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,0c) Boot0011* Floppy Disk Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,00) Boot0012* Hard Disk 0 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,08) Boot0013* PXE Network Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,06) Boot0014* Hard Disk 1 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,09) Boot0015* Hard Disk 2 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,0a) Boot0016* Hard Disk 3 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,0b) Boot0017* Hard Disk 4 Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,0e) Boot0018* USB Storage Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,03) Boot0019* Diagnostics Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,da) Boot001A* iSCSI Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,04) Boot001B* iSCSI Critical Vendor(0c588db8-6af4-11dd-a992-00197d890238,05) This is probably a bug in something else, but we should be more robust in handling this problem: + '[' -x /usr/sbin/efibootmgr ']' ++ /usr/sbin/efibootmgr -v ++ grep BootOrder ++ awk '{print $2}' ++ awk -F, '{print $1}' + BOOT=000E ++ /usr/sbin/efibootmgr -v ++ grep Boot000E ++ awk '{print $NF}' + EFI='HD(1,800,64000,cde409ee-c35d-4367-881a-5dc9b04d7452)File(\EFI\redhat\grub.efi)' ++ /usr/sbin/efibootmgr -v ++ grep -Ei '(netboot|pxe)' ++ cut -c5-8 + PXE_SLOT='0003 0013 0021 002F 003D 004B 0059 0067 0075 0083 0091 009F 00AD 00BB 00C9' + '[' '!' -z 0003 0013 0021 002F 003D 004B 0059 0067 0075 0083 0091 009F 00AD 00BB 00C9 ']' /tmp/ks-script-DHamE9: line 60: [: too many arguments The offending line is: PXE_SLOT=$(/usr/sbin/efibootmgr -v | grep -Ei '(netboot|pxe)' |cut -c5-8) Which can be fixed by this: PXE_SLOT=$(/usr/sbin/efibootmgr -v | grep -Ei '(netboot|pxe)' |head -n 1 |cut -c5-8)
Thanks Bill. I have made the change and updated the test cases: http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/1737/
Although we can't sure about which the efi entry is valid and it's what we want to use, the fix is safe and resolves the failure of seeing multiple netboot/pxe entries. So close this as Verified.
Beaker 0.12 has been released.