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grub2 package

  1. Bug #1900773
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1900773

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dann frazier (dannf) wrote : Re: thunderx CRB systems tftp timeout downloading initrd

Since technically GRUB is requesting the initrd file, I tried to rule it out as a possible cause by seeing if the initial payload that UEFI downloads directly would time out if it was the same size. I did this by padding my grubnetaa64.efi binary to be the same size as the installer initrd.

 mv grubnetaa64.efi grubnetaa64.efi.orig
 cp casper/initrd grubnetaa64.efi
 dd if=grubnetaa64.efi.orig of=grubnetaa64 conv=notrunc

This did *not* timeout. So unfortunately we can't obviously rule out GRUB as a factor.