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[RHEL9.0.0-z][installation][LPAR][s390x] Error: The length of the parameters line (3754 bytes) exceeds the allowed maximum (896 bytes): No such file or directory

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      What were you trying to do that didn't work?

      When I try provision RHEL.9.0.0 to LPAR by HMC, installation would failed because of the length of kernel params

      Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

      z16 machine

       

      RHEL-9.0.0-updates-20240521.39:

      kernel-5.14.0-70.101.1.el9_0
      qemu-kvm-6.2.0-11.el9_0.8
      seabios-1.15.0-1.el9
      sgabios-0.20180715git-8.el9
      edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-3.el9_0.4

      libtpms-0.9.1-0.20211126git1ff6fe1f43.el9
      swtpm-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9_0
      mdevctl-1.1.0-4.el9
      sevctl-0.2.0-4.el9
      nmap-7.91-10.el9
      ksmtuned-0.1.0-1.el9
      kernel-rt-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0
      libvirt-8.0.0-8.6.el9_0

       

      RHEL-9.0.0-updates-20240507.90:

      kernel-5.14.0-70.100.1.el9_0
      qemu-kvm-6.2.0-11.el9_0.8
      seabios-1.15.0-1.el9
      sgabios-0.20180715git-8.el9
      edk2-20220126gitbb1bba3d77-3.el9_0.4

      libtpms-0.9.1-0.20211126git1ff6fe1f43.el9
      swtpm-0.7.0-3.20211109gitb79fd91.el9_0
      mdevctl-1.1.0-4.el9
      sevctl-0.2.0-4.el9
      nmap-7.91-10.el9
      ksmtuned-0.1.0-1.el9
      kernel-rt-5.14.0-70.100.1.rt21.172.el9_0
      libvirt-8.0.0-8.6.el9_0

      How reproducible:

      100%

      Steps to reproduce

      1.  load install tree from nfs in HMC (select generic.ins)
      2. enter kernel parameters:
        1. ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!condev
        2. inst.repo=<install tree url>
        3. rd.znet=qeth,0.0.0620,0.0.0621,0.0.0622,layer2=1,portname=foo
        4. ip=10.0.173.14::10.0.173.254:255.255.255.0:rdu-z16-l27:enc620.327:none
          vlan=enc620.327:enc620
        5. nameserver=10.11.5.160
        6. rd.zfcp=0.0.a400,0x5005076810274E12,0x0000000000000000
        7. ^d
      3. start installation

      Expected results

      installation succeeds

      Actual results

      Installing boot loader
      .================================================================================
      ================================================================================
      Question

       The following error occurred while installing the boot loader. The system will
       not be bootable. Would you like to ignore this and continue with installation?
       
       Error: The length of the parameters line (3754 bytes) exceeds the allowed
       maximum (896 bytes): No such file or directory

      Please respond 'yes' or 'no': 

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            bfu@redhat.com Leo Fu
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