Vinícius Ferrão bef5bd5eef feat(xCAT-server): kickstart EL10 riscv64 nodes around the anaconda boot loader gap ...

The EL10 anaconda has no RISC-V EFI platform: on riscv64 it asks for the
x86 UEFI boot loader packages (grub2-efi-x64, shim-x64), which do not
exist, and registers the UEFI boot entry as \EFI\<distro>\shimx64.efi,
so a kickstart install stops at the missing packages and, once tolerated,
leaves a system the firmware cannot boot.

Add riscv64 templates for the rocky10/rhels10 compute and service
profiles that are the shared templates plus %packages --ignoremissing and
a %post fix-up, riscv64 package lists that add grub2-efi-riscv64 and
efibootmgr to the shared lists, and the fix-up itself
(post.rhels10.riscv64): it copies \EFI\<distro>\grubriscv64.efi to the
removable-media path \EFI\BOOT\BOOTRISCV64.EFI and re-points the UEFI
boot entry at grubriscv64.efi, so the installed node boots from disk with
or without usable NVRAM. Reinstalling a node replaces that entry instead
of adding another one.

The %post of a kickstart is a single shell script, into which xCAT
splices every #INCLUDE, and post.rhels10/post.rhels8 end it with
"exit 0"; the fix-up is therefore included ahead of them. The shared
templates and other architectures are unchanged.

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feat(xCAT-server): kickstart EL10 riscv64 nodes around the anaconda boot loader gap

2026-09-01 10:50:21 -03:00