Hello,
I am in the midst of preparing an autoinstallation profile for SLES 16. I
desire the ability to have Agama preserve the UEFI boot order from before the
install, or put the boot entry that led to the installation (BootCurrent) at
the top of the list.
Similar functionality in other autoinstall systems:
Red Hat kickstart's `bootloader --leavebootorder` -
https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#bootloader
"On EFI or ISeries/PSeries machines, this option prevents the installer from
making changes to the existing list of bootable images."
Ubuntu autoinstall/curtin:
`reorder_uefi` under `grub` section: Puts the entry that booted the installer
at the top of the order post install.
"Therefore, if reorder_uefi is True curtin will modify the UEFI BootOrder
settings to place the currently booted entry (BootCurrent) to the first option
after installing the new target OS into the UEFI boot menu. The result is that
the system will boot from the same device that it booted to run curtin"
Is anything similar implemented within Agama yet? I have tried searching
through the SLES 16 autoinstall documentation, as well as the Agama
documentation on https://agama-project.github.io, but do not see anything of
the sort.
This is very useful for environments where one wishes to test against
multiple installs in an automated fashion, where the system reboots and PXE
installs a different distribution configuration, without having to access the
machine's console directly.
Thanks much,
L. Nickle
HPC Systems Engineer
Cornelis Networks
