MAAS

Warn about missing EFI partition

Bug #1591336 reported by Jason Hobbs on 2016-06-10

This bug affects 9 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	MAAS	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned	MAAS 3.4.x

Bug Description

I have a few disks on my system, but I'm only setting up one filesystem - /dev/sda formatted as ext4 and set to be mounted at /.

This is with an EFI system and 2.0.0~beta6+bzr5073-0ubuntu1~xenial1.

This may not be a valid config - I think I need a /boot/efi partition too.

It would be nice if MAAS would tell me this isn't a valid config, since it tries to do that when I don't have a / at all.

You can see this does cause an issue with grub-install from the log here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1590846/comments/5

Jun 10 19:12:37 litleo cloud-init[1365]: grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/efi'.
Jun 10 19:12:37 litleo cloud-init[1365]: failed to install grub!
Jun 10 19:12:37 litleo cloud-init[1365]: Unexpected error while running command.
Jun 10 19:12:37 litleo cloud-init[1365]: Command: ['install-grub', '--uefi', '/tmp/tmpnhzqkpwn/target', '/dev/nvme0n1']

See original description

Tags:

Jason Hobbs (jason-hobbs) on 2016-06-10

description:	updated
summary:	- Installation fails when formatting /dev/sda as one big ext4 filesystem + MAAS allows formatting /dev/sda as one big ext4 filesystem, but that + doesn't work

Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) on 2016-10-10

tags:	added: error-surface
Changed in maas:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium
milestone:	none → 2.1.0

Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) on 2016-10-13

Changed in maas:
milestone:	2.1.0 → 2.1.1

Blake Rouse (blake-rouse) on 2016-11-04

Changed in maas:
milestone:	2.1.1 → 2.1.2

Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) on 2016-11-23

Changed in maas:
milestone:	2.1.2 → 2.1.3

Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) on 2018-02-06

Changed in maas:
importance:	Medium → Low
milestone:	2.1.3 → 2.4.x
summary:	- MAAS allows formatting /dev/sda as one big ext4 filesystem, but that - doesn't work + [UI, wishlist] Warn about missing EFI partition

Revision history for this message

Adam Collard (adam-collard) wrote on 2019-09-19: Re: [UI, wishlist] Warn about missing EFI partition

This bug has not seen any activity in the last 6 months, so it is being automatically closed.

If you are still experiencing this issue, please feel free to re-open.

MAAS Team

Changed in maas:
status:	Triaged → Invalid

Jason Hobbs (jason-hobbs) on 2019-09-19

Changed in maas:
status:	Invalid → New

Alberto Donato (ack) on 2019-09-20

Changed in maas:
milestone:	2.4.x → none
status:	New → Triaged
summary:	- [UI, wishlist] Warn about missing EFI partition + Warn about missing EFI partition

Revision history for this message

Jerzy Husakowski (jhusakowski) wrote on 2022-08-04:

MAAS could validate the partition configuration after user edits, as it could determine if the required partitions are defined. Even though this is not a bug, we are considering making a small improvement to the validation logic.