SLES15 SP7: UEFI iso image does not boot.

[Jan Robinson]

Hi All.

This same Kiwi config.xml build succeeds and boot well with SP6

The Build for SP7 succeeds but does not boot.

<type image="oem" filesystem="ext4" installiso="true" initrd_system="dracut" installboot="install" kernelcmdline="splash rd.kiwi.ramdisk ramdisk_size=4096000" firmware="uefi">
<bootloader  name="grub2" console="console" timeout="5"/>
<oemconfig>
    <oem-skip-verify>true</oem-skip-verify>
    <oem-unattended>true</oem-unattended>
    <oem-unattended-id>/dev/ram0</oem-unattended-id>
    <oem-device-filter>/dev/sd</oem-device-filter>
    <oem-swap>false</oem-swap>
    <oem-multipath-scan>false</oem-multipath-scan>
</oemconfig>
</type>

       
SP6 (all well)
/boot/x86_64/loader/
total 71680
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     2048 Feb  5 11:18 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     2048 Feb  5 11:18 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      512 Feb  5 11:18 boot_hybrid.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    19784 Feb  5 11:18 chain.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   281481 Feb  5 11:18 eltorito.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    21860 Feb  5 11:18 gfxboot.c32
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     2048 Feb  5 11:18 grub2/
-rw------- 1 root root 58764754 Feb  5 11:18 initrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    24576 Feb  5 11:18 isolinux.bin


SP7, most recent update. (does not boot)
/boot/x86_64/loader/
total 71073
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     2048 Jul 14 11:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     2048 Jul 14 11:37 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      512 Jul 14 11:37 boot_hybrid.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   293124 Jul 14 11:37 eltorito.img
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     2048 Jul 14 11:37 grub2/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58098291 Jul 14 11:37 initrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14379520 Jul 14 11:37 linux

Kiwi Server SLES15 SP5

uname -a
Linux ita237 5.14.21-150500.55.103-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue May 13 09:00:37 UTC 2025 (1fdbb8b) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
dracut-055+suse.396.g701c6212-150500.3.29.2.x86_64

kiwi-boot-descriptions-1.2.0-2.51.x86_64
kiwi-boot-requires-1.2.0-2.51.x86_64
kiwi-man-pages-10.2.27-lp156.1.1.x86_64
kiwi-systemdeps-bootloaders-10.2.27-lp156.1.1.x86_64
kiwi-systemdeps-containers-9.24.43-150100.3.93.1.x86_64
kiwi-systemdeps-core-10.2.27-lp156.1.1.x86_64
kiwi-systemdeps-disk-images-10.2.27-lp156.1.1.x86_64
kiwi-systemdeps-filesystems-10.2.27-lp156.1.1.x86_64
kiwi-systemdeps-image-validation-9.24.43-150100.3.93.1.x86_64
kiwi-systemdeps-iso-media-10.2.27-lp156.1.1.x86_64
kiwi-tools-9.24.43-150100.3.93.1.x86_64
python311-kiwi-10.2.27-lp156.1.1.x86_64

Thank you.

[Jan Robinson]

Hello Marcus

The log from the UEFI build.

Thank you,

Jan