Feature #19554: Provide warning for unsupported PXE loader combinations - Foreman

Feature #19554

Provide warning for unsupported PXE loader combinations

Added by Lukas Zapletal almost 6 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Tomáš Strachota

Category:

Host creation

Target version:

1.17.0

Difficulty:

Triaged:

Bugzilla link:

1489377

Pull request:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4811, https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4792

Fixed in Releases:

Found in Releases:

Red Hat JIRA:

Description

Users very often try to provision RHEL 6 with Grub2 in UEFI which leads to boot loading errors (bacically Grub2 prompt or kernel panic).

We need a warning next to PXE Loader flag in the UI if there is known combination of OS and loader that does not work. These currently are:

RHEL 6.x and Grub2
RHEL 7.x and Grub1
Ubuntu 10.x or older and Grub2
Ubuntu 11.x or newer and Grub1
Debian 2-6 and Grub2
Debian 7+ and Grub1

This can be as simple as regular expression and a warning message showing up next to the field in the UI. No actions must be taken. A global setting should be present which will turn this feature of in case user do not want to see these warnings.

Related issues

Associated revisions

Revision 805420d1 (diff)
Added by Tomáš Strachota over 5 years ago

Fixes #19554 - Warning for unsupported PXE loader combinations

Revision f9ba69d7 (diff)
Added by Tomáš Strachota over 5 years ago

Fixes #19554 - Warning for unsupported PXE loader combinations

Revision 9f701b61 (diff)
Added by Tomáš Strachota over 5 years ago

Fixes #19554 - Warning for unsupported PXE loader combinations

Revision a940ec7c (diff)
Added by Sebastian Gräßl over 5 years ago

Refs #19554 - Rewrite to use an Object and not Map

Map is not yet fully supported in all browsers and
would require additional dependencies to be added.

Using a Object with lodash functions achieves the
same and does not require any additional
dependencies.

Revision 62fb64c6 (diff)
Added by Tomáš Strachota over 5 years ago

Fixes #19554 - Warning for unsupported PXE loader combinations

(cherry picked from commit 805420d18ae67be2fa76cc433ef58b685a640afa)

Revision 187ac8c8 (diff)
Added by Sebastian Gräßl over 5 years ago

Refs #19554 - Rewrite to use an Object and not Map

Map is not yet fully supported in all browsers and
would require additional dependencies to be added.

Using a Object with lodash functions achieves the
same and does not require any additional
dependencies.

(cherry picked from commit a940ec7c1cc821212617827633dea46ffd2749c4)

History

#1 Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 6 years ago

Good idea would be our status API to do this kind of warnings.

#2 Updated by Marek Hulán over 5 years ago

Target version set to 1.17.0-RC2

#3 Updated by Tomáš Strachota over 5 years ago

Status changed from New to Assigned
Assignee set to Tomáš Strachota

#4 Updated by Lukas Zapletal over 5 years ago

Just to clear things little bit, these are known and supported cobinations, we should only issue warning if ANY of these rules are not true:

RHEL 6.x and Grub1
RHEL 7.x and Grub2
Ubuntu 10.x or older and Grub1
Ubuntu 11.x or newer and Grub2
Debian 2-6 and Grub1
Debian 7+ and Grub2

It's actually the opposite of unsupported combinations in the original description. I think we should have a list of supported pairs rather than unsupported, that's all.