kernel' not found"¶

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abbbi opened issue at 2020-07-28 15:40:¶

Hi,

i have setup some automatic tests that use the latest Rear Version shipped with our components
to create a backup and automatically boot the generated iso image to verify a recovery would work (in simple setups, using
expect to answer all the questions):

I also have some multipath setups that use UEFI boot, after updating to REAR 2.6, the generated ISO images
fail to boot with:

error: file `/isolinux/kernel' not found.
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: you need to load the kernel first.
Press any key to continue...

We use mostly default settings, these worked with REAR 2.5, not sure if im hitting a regression here or does
REAR 2.6 need more settings regarding UEFI? Distributions in this case are SLE12/SLE15.

Backup log regarding UEFI looks quite normal:

Using UEFI Boot Loader for Linux (USING_UEFI_BOOTLOADER=1)
[..]
Trying to find what to use as UEFI bootloader...
Trying to find a 'well known file' to be used as UEFI bootloader...
Using '/boot/efi/EFI/sles/grubx64.efi' as UEFI bootloader file
[..]

abbbi commented at 2020-07-28 15:45:¶

Having a quick look at the generated iso image it seems grub.cfg is referencing to /isolinux/kernel as boot image:

/mnt/EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg:     linux /isolinux/kernel root=UUID=36cb193a-9a79-4187-917e-84c6895fe38d selinux=0 console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0

but that file is not part of the generated iso image:

/mnt/
├── boot
│   ├── efiboot.img
│   └── grub
│       └── grub.cfg
├── BOOT.CAT
├── EFI
│   └── BOOT
│       ├── BOOTX64.efi
│       ├── fonts
│       │   └── unicode.pf2
│       ├── grub.cfg
│       └── locale
└── isolinux
    ├── chain.c32
    ├── hdt.c32
    ├── initrd.cgz
    ├── isolinux.bin
    ├── isolinux.cfg
    ├── kernel
    ├── menu.c32
    ├── message
    ├── pci.ids
    ├── poweroff.com
    ├── rear.help
    ├── reboot.c32
    └── vesamenu.c32