Almalinux 9

[majst01]

Regardless what i tried, i was unable to have /boot/System.map and /boot/vmlinuz present ?

This was solved by adding "almalinux" to /etc/machine-id, no idea why.

TODO:

• test in fra-equ01

[majst01]

Actual error:

2022-10-26T12:35:05.709+0200    info    cmdexec running command {"commmand": "grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=almalinux", "start": "2022-10-26 12:35:05.709366846 +0200 CEST
 m=+0.242851126"}
grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
2022-10-26T12:35:05.715+0200    error   cmdexec executed command with error     {"output": "", "duration": "6.385259ms", "error": "exit status 1"}
2022-10-26T12:35:05.715+0200    error   install-go      installation failed     {"duration": 0.24468125}
2022-10-26T12:35:05.715+0200    fatal   install-go      exit status 1

[majst01]

Actual error:

2022-10-26T12:35:05.709+0200    info    cmdexec running command {"commmand": "grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=almalinux", "start": "2022-10-26 12:35:05.709366846 +0200 CEST
 m=+0.242851126"}
grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
2022-10-26T12:35:05.715+0200    error   cmdexec executed command with error     {"output": "", "duration": "6.385259ms", "error": "exit status 1"}
2022-10-26T12:35:05.715+0200    error   install-go      installation failed     {"duration": 0.24468125}
2022-10-26T12:35:05.715+0200    fatal   install-go      exit status 1

Related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917213

[mschuller]

To fix the grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. error, try this:

1. Create an image (.../almalinux/8/img.tar.lz4) with a default grub-config file /etc/default/grub,
   content of this file like this:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL="serial console"
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto console=ttyS0"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true

2. Generate the grub-config with menu entries for the boot-loader:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/almalinux/grub.cfg

3. Check if efibootmgr shows a entry for AlmaLinux whith the shimx64.efi loader:

efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0006,0000,0001,0002,0003,0004,0005
Boot0000* UiApp	FvVol(7cb8bdc9-f8eb-4f34-aaea-3ee4af6516a1)/FvFile(462caa21-7614-4503-836e-8ab6f4662331)
...
Boot0006* AlmaLinux	HD(1,GPT,5ba13149-48bb-44d7-b802-1f1f1252bc22,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\almalinux\shimx64.efi)

This should be done automatically with grub2-mkconfig.
4. If not, make the entry with:

efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p1 -l \\EFI\\almalinux\\shimx64.efi -L "AlmaLinux"

The grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi ... command is not necessary !!!

[majst01]

Again:

{"time":"2024-06-07T10:19:21.741323671+02:00","level":"INFO","msg":"detect kernel and initrd","install-go":{"kernel":"/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.0-427.18.1.el9_4.x86_64","initrd":"/boot/initramfs-5.14.0-427.18.1.el9_4.x86_64.img"}}
{"time":"2024-06-07T10:19:21.741512381+02:00","level":"INFO","msg":"install grub"}
{"time":"2024-06-07T10:19:21.741637945+02:00","level":"INFO","msg":"running command","cmdexec":{"command":"grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg","start":"2024-06-07 10:19:21.741627032 +0200 CEST m=+0.396895950"}}
{"time":"2024-06-07T08:19:29.46477539Z","level":"DEBUG","msg":"lldp","machineID":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-ac1f6bd3909c","detectedNeighbor":{"Name":"fra-equ01-r01leaf01","Description":"Cumulus Linux version 3.7.16 running on Accton AS7712-32X","PortDescription":"swp2s3","Interface":"eth0","Chassis":{"Type":"Mac","Value":"b8:6a:97:74:00:3a"},"Port":{"Type":"Mac","Value":"b8:6a:97:74:00:42"}}}
{"time":"2024-06-07T08:19:29.464997163Z","level":"DEBUG","msg":"lldp","machineID":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-ac1f6bd3909c","detectedNeighbor":{"Name":"fra-equ01-r01leaf02","Description":"Cumulus Linux version 3.7.16 running on Accton AS7712-32X","PortDescription":"swp2s3","Interface":"eth1","Chassis":{"Type":"Mac","Value":"b8:6a:97:73:f8:3a"},"Port":{"Type":"Mac","Value":"b8:6a:97:73:f8:42"}}}
Generating grub configuration file ...
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
done
{"time":"2024-06-07T10:19:36.983192693+02:00","level":"INFO","msg":"executed command","cmdexec":{"output":"","duration":"15.241554409s"}}
{"time":"2024-06-07T10:19:36.983259491+02:00","level":"INFO","msg":"running command","cmdexec":{"command":"grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=almalinux UUID=b831b01c-ee32-42fd-a483-161d0d415652","start":"2024-06-07 10:19:36.983249399 +0200 CEST m=+15.638518289"}}
grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
{"time":"2024-06-07T10:19:36.989002508+02:00","level":"ERROR","msg":"executed command with error","cmdexec":{"output":"","duration":"5.748996ms","error":"exit status 1"}}
{"time":"2024-06-07T10:19:36.989051281+02:00","level":"ERROR","msg":"installation failed","install-go":{"duration":15641352780}}
panic: exit status 1

goroutine 1 [running]:

[Gerrit91]

It works now, even with RAID configuration on root partition.

Following steps should be:

• Cleanup this PR to make this mergable
• Remove CentOS in a next PR
• Probably rewrite some of the install code as the if-conditions for specific OSs become very complex to read
• Update Github Actions workflow files