Feature #19554
closed
Provide warning for unsupported PXE loader combinations
Added by Lukas Zapletal over 7 years ago.
Updated over 6 years ago.
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.
Good idea would be our status API to do this kind of warnings.
- Target version set to 1.17.0-RC2
- Status changed from New to Assigned
- Assignee set to Tomáš Strachota
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.
- Target version changed from 1.17.0-RC2 to 1.18.0-RC2
- Status changed from Assigned to Ready For Testing
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4792 added
- Target version changed from 1.18.0-RC2 to 214
- Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Translation missing: en.field_release set to 287
Given the entirety of the check is contained in a class "PXECompatibilityCheck" added in this PR, I'm marking as 1.15.4 as it's very useful.
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4810 added
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4811 added
- Translation missing: en.field_release changed from 287 to 296
- Pull request deleted (
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4810)
- Bugzilla link set to 1489377
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