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Bug
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Resolution: Done
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Major
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None
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rhel-9.5
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None
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Important
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rhel-sst-ccs
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ssg_front_door
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1
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False
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False
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Yes
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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CCS 2025-13
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None
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Required
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Required
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Not Required
What were you trying to do that didn't work?
A user is installing RHEL 9.5 aarch64 over PXE using extracted DVD ISO.
What is the impact of this issue to you?
The installation gets hung after download of vmlinuz files from globalpxe and extracting the kernel image from the vmlinuz
practicevm{64}> ls -lh .
total 72K
drwxr-xr-x 4 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Oct 9 01:22 AppStream
drwxr-xr-x 4 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Oct 9 01:22 BaseOS
rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 2.0K Oct 7 08:25 boot.catalog
drwxrwxr-x 3 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Oct 7 08:25 EFI
drwxrwsr-x 3 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Jan 10 02:21 errata
rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 8.0K Oct 9 01:07 EULA
rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 1.5K Oct 9 01:33 extra_files.json
rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 18K Oct 9 01:07 GPL
drwxrwxr-x 3 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Jan 22 22:26 images
rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 103 Oct 9 01:22 media.repo
rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 1.7K Oct 9 01:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-beta
rrr- 1 kramatej linuxadm 3.6K Oct 9 01:07 RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
drwxrwsr-x 3 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Jan 10 02:21 Security
practicevm{65}> cd images/
practicevm{66}> ls -lh .
total 872M
-rwxrwxr-x 1 kramatej linuxadm 7.2M Oct 7 08:31 efiboot.img
-rwxrwxr-x 1 kramatej linuxadm 862M Oct 7 08:25 install.img
drwxrwxr-x 2 kramatej linuxadm 4.0K Jan 22 04:00 pxeboot
practicevm{67}> cd pxeboot/
practicevm{68}> ls -lh .
total 140M
rw-rr- 1 kramatej users 128M Jan 22 22:25 initrd.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kramatej users 13M Jan 22 22:25 vmlinuz
practicevm{69}>
Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:
RHEL-9-5-0-BaseOS-aarch64 DVD ISO
How reproducible is this bug?:
100%
Steps to reproduce
- Extract the contents for RHEL 9.5 aarch64 DVD ISO on a local path
- Use PXE to install using the local path
Expected results
The installation should work without issues.
Actual results
The installation is hung as per the attached screenshot