Bug 21250

Summary:	service_harddrake cannot add/remove nokmsboot option when using grub2, leading to endless reboot loop
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Martin Whitaker <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	High	CC:	neoser10, wilcal.int
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21263 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23097
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakxtools-17.88-1.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Martin Whitaker 2017-07-15 18:22:48 CEST

If a system is booted without the nokmsboot option, but the selected video driver needs that option, or vice versa, service_hardrake attempts to fix the problem by updating the bootloader configuration (using Xconfig::various::setup_kms()) and rebooting. But Xconfig::various::setup_kms() does not work when using grub2.

Comment 1 William Kenney 2017-07-16 06:36:24 CEST

Confirmed

CC: (none) => wilcal.int

Rémi Verschelde 2017-07-24 14:10:12 CEST

Priority: Normal => High
Severity: normal => major

Rémi Verschelde 2017-08-03 16:35:02 CEST

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21263

Comment 2 Mageia Robot 2018-01-09 22:18:18 CET

commit 6fb73fba36f9fcf88251f3bd3ad8ee67950c8541
Author: Martin Whitaker <mageia@...>
Date:   Sun Jul 23 16:18:49 2017 +0100

    Combine bootloader perImageAppend and default_append keys.
    
    This allows changes to the append options to propagate to the grub2
    configuration file, thus fixing mga#21263 and mga#21250.
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=6fb73fba36f9fcf88251f3bd3ad8ee67950c8541

 Bug links:
   Mageia
      https://bugs.mageia.org/21263
      https://bugs.mageia.org/21250

Martin Whitaker 2018-05-29 23:16:10 CEST

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23097

Comment 3 Mauricio Andrés Bustamante Viveros 2018-05-31 08:02:46 CEST

Tested this using the mga6 VM
GRUB2 in my VM, did not have the nokmsboot (defaults to mageia install)
Always the bootsplash was gray with three question marks (?)
Reconfigured the bootloader (testing the vga= option from other bug) and added the nokmsboot to the end of the append line
Rebooted without issues but the bootsplash (that never was shown) this tiem worked

Rebooted the VM and the nokmsboot option persists between reboots

CC: (none) => neoser10

Comment 4 Martin Whitaker 2018-06-11 23:09:34 CEST

Fix released in drakxtools-17.88.2-1.mga6.src.rpm.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED