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

The libvirt ci job submits a beaker job to install rhel 9.7 in image mode, but host fails to boot

What is the impact of this issue to you?

It blocks virt testing on ARM

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

ampere-mtsnow-altramax-03.khw.eng.rdu2.dc.redhat.com

How reproducible is this bug?:

100%

Steps to reproduce

1. See the beaker job https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/recipes/18696093#task194972319
2. This failure happens on ampere altramax with 64k kernel with below the console log of the beaker job:

>>Checking Media Presence......
>>No Media Present......Checkpoint D9
ERROR: Boot option loading failed
Checkpoint AD
Checkpoint D9
ERROR: Boot option loading failed
Checkpoint AD

UEFI Interactive Shell v2.2
EDK II
UEFI v2.70 (American Megatrends, 0x0005000F)

Mapping table

FS0:
Alias(s):HD0a65535a1:;BLK1:
PcieRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,9D5E8E50-068B-49AE-88A8-7AB66355F298,0x800,0x12C000)

BLK0:
Alias(s):
PcieRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)

BLK2:
Alias(s):
PcieRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(2,GPT,7CF91279-C580-4F31-9279-A08FC12E400B,0x12C800,0x200000)

BLK3:
Alias(s):
PcieRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(3,GPT,CDEE191E-EA3B-40FF-854E-8AD00C5566D4,0x32C800,0x6F955000)

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1. The CI job https://libvirt-rhos-jenkins-product.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com/view/libvirt/view/RHEL-9.7/view/RHEL-9.7%20aarch64/job/libvirt-RHEL-9.7-provision-aarch64-function-cpu/13/console

Expected results

The host should be privisioned with RHEL 9.7 in image mode successfully

Actual results

Boot fails. See attachment for full beaker job console.log

Others

On same machine, provision in package mode can succeed.