Bug #33749
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ESXi 7.0 U2 and later (VM version 19) EFI Boot Failure
Description
When the VM vmx-19 is set to network boot automatically it fails.
When the VM vmx-19 is set to prompt and Normal/network boot is chosen it is successful.
Default PXE scripts are in use. Grub fails on the chainload option only when automatically booting. When the Setup menu is forced it tries again to boot and succeeds.
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| Screen Shot 2021-10-20 at 9.12.38 AM.png | View Screen Shot 2021-10-20 at 9.12.38 AM.png | 396 KB | Screenshot of grub debug=all with failed and successful runs. |
Updated by Doug Forster over 2 years ago
How do I remove the fixed in release option as this hasn't been fixed.
Updated by Doug Forster over 2 years ago
If I change vmx-19 to vmx-15 the server boots and works without interaction.
The hammer command used to create said VM is:
hammer -v \
host create \
--architecture x86_64 \
--compute-attributes cpus=4,memory_mb=8192,cluster='VM Cluster',path=/Datacenters/VM/vm,start=1,firmware=efi,guest_id=otherGuest64,hardware_version=vmx-19,guest_id=rhel8_64Guest,scsi_controller_type=ParaVirtualSCSIController \
--compute-resource "vCenter" \
--domain example.net \
--puppet-environment production \
--hostgroup-title linux \
--name server.example.net \
--interface ip=10.0.0.20,subnet_id=106,compute_network=NET_10.0.0.0,compute_type=VirtualVmxnet3 \
--location "Default" \
--medium "RHEL 8.4 Install Media" \
--operatingsystem "RHEL Server 8.4" \
--organization Example \
--puppet-ca-proxy puppet.example.net \
--puppet-proxy puppet.example.net \
--volume "size_gb=200,datastore=PROD,thin=true,eager_zero=false" \
--partition-table="Kickstart default" \
--pxe-loader "Grub2 UEFI"
Updated by Doug Forster over 2 years ago
I have confirmed with RedHat that there is a bug effecting network efi booting on 7.0 versions of the VM/vmx-19. Perhaps the best option at this point is to block someone from using it for network based provisioning until it has been fixed.
Updated by Doug Forster over 2 years ago
I have found a workaround from VMware Support.
Set "efi.quickBoot.enabled = FALSE" as an advanced property on the VM allows the vm to boot normally.
Updated by Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden over 1 year ago
- Fixed in Releases deleted (
2.4.2)
Doug Forster wrote:
How do I remove the fixed in release option as this hasn't been fixed.
Using ctrl+click allows you to deselect a value.
Updated by
Updated by The Foreman Bot 12 days ago
- Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
- Assignee set to Shimon Shtein
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/10118 added
Updated by The Foreman Bot about 21 hours ago
- Pull request deleted (
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/10118)