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Advisory: (Revision) HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server and HP ProLiant Gen9-Series Servers - Certain Linux Distributions Will Lose Their Respective Boot Entry if Booting in UEFI Mode After NVRAM Is Cleared

SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - CUSTOMER ADVISORY

Document ID: c04174684

Version: 4

Advisory: (Revision) HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server and HP ProLiant Gen9-Series Servers - Certain Linux Distributions Will Lose Their Respective Boot Entry if Booting in UEFI Mode After NVRAM Is Cleared
NOTICE: The information in this document, including products and software versions, is current as of the Release Date. This document is subject to change without notice.

Release Date: 2014-03-07

Last Updated: 2016-03-15

DESCRIPTION

Document Version
Release Date
Details
4
03/15/2016
Updated Resolution to include information to refer to the OS User Guide.
3
06/24/2015
Updated boot entry in Resolution.
2
09/15/2014
Added HP ProLiant Gen9-series servers as affected servers.
1
03/07/2014
Original Document Release. Supersedes c04174684.

On an HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 or HP ProLiant Gen9-series server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12 (non-secure), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, or Ubuntu Linux 13.04, if NVRAM is cleared in the ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU), after the next reboot, the boot entry will not be available. The entry for the storage controller that was used for the installation will be an option; however, it will not boot to the operating system.

SCOPE

Any HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 or HP ProLiant Gen9-series server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12 (non-secure), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, or Ubuntu Linux 13.04 if NVRAM is cleared.

This has been observed when Linux is running in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode that does not contain an upstream shim patch in fallback.c to save off the correct boot path to the uefi image.

RESOLUTION

As a workaround, to boot to Linux, perform either of the following:

  1. During server boot, press F9.
  2. Scroll down and select the "Run a UEFI application from a file system" entry.
  3. Select the boot device.
  4. Keep selecting the entries to return to the corresponding boot loader to boot the OS.

•For SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 SP3, the path is \efi\SuSE\elilo.efi
•For SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12, the path is \efi\suse\grubx64.efi
•For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the path is \EFI\redhat\grub.efi •For Ubuntu Linux, the path is \efi\Ubuntu\bootx64.efi

OR

Use the Linux tool efibootmgr to create the boot entry. Use the path in the workaround above to use the efibootmgr tool with associated options as follows:

efibootmgr
-c : create
-d : disk drive (use fdisk to determine drive and partition)
-p : UEFI partition #
-L : Label for boot loader
-l : location of .efi file

Refer to the OS User Guide for additional information.

This advisory will be updated when additional information is available.





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Hardware Platforms Affected: HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server, HPE ProLiant XL730f Gen9 Server, HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen9 Server, HPE ProLiant DL180 Gen9 Server, HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Server, HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade, HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Server, HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen9 Server, HPE ProLiant XL230a Gen9 Server
Operating Systems Affected: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86)
Software Affected: Not Applicable
Support Communication Cross Reference ID: IA04174684
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Document title: Advisory: (Revision) HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server and HP ProLiant Gen9-Series Servers - Certain Linux Distributions Will Lose Their Respective Boot Entry if Booting in UEFI Mode After NVRAM Is Cleared
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