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Feature #19554

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Provide warning for unsupported PXE loader combinations

Added by Lukas Zapletal almost 7 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Host creation
Target version:
Fixed in Releases:
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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 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Foreman - Refactor #20846: refactor usage of ES6 Map to using _setRejectedSebastian Gräßl09/05/2017Actions
Actions #1

Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 7 years ago

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

Actions #2

Updated by Marek Hulán over 6 years ago

  • Target version set to 1.17.0-RC2
Actions #3

Updated by Tomáš Strachota over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Assigned
  • Assignee set to Tomáš Strachota
Actions #4

Updated by Lukas Zapletal over 6 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.

Actions #5

Updated by Marek Hulán over 6 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.17.0-RC2 to 1.18.0-RC2
Actions #6

Updated by The Foreman Bot over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Ready For Testing
  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4792 added
Actions #7

Updated by Marek Hulán over 6 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.18.0-RC2 to 214
Actions #8

Updated by Anonymous over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
Actions #9

Updated by Daniel Lobato Garcia over 6 years ago

  • 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.

Actions #10

Updated by The Foreman Bot over 6 years ago

  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4810 added
Actions #11

Updated by The Foreman Bot over 6 years ago

  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4811 added
Actions #12

Updated by Daniel Lobato Garcia over 6 years ago

  • translation missing: en.field_release changed from 287 to 296
Actions #13

Updated by Ohad Levy over 6 years ago

  • Related to Refactor #20846: refactor usage of ES6 Map to using _set added
Actions #14

Updated by Ohad Levy over 6 years ago

  • Pull request deleted (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4810)
Actions #15

Updated by roman plevka over 6 years ago

  • Bugzilla link set to 1489377
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