grub is unable to chainboot from network to SATA drive

Bug #1906344 reported by Lee Trager
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Bug Description

Machines which are managed by MAAS are configured to always network boot. When an operating system is deployed grub is sent[1] a configuration file which searches drives for recognized boot loaders. When the local disk is a SATA drive this process is not working. The config exits at the end to fallback to booting the next configured device but this config does not always exist(e.g LP:1906379). In that case the deployment fails.

I've verified this happens with grub from Focal(1.142.9+2.04-1ubuntu26.7) and Bionic(1.93.22+2.02-2ubuntu8.20).

Reproduction:
1. Create a KVM which uses an emulated SATA drive and UEFI firmware.
2. Add the machine and commission it in MAAS
3. Try deploying any operating system. CentOS 8 currently fails to deploy because it does not create a UEFI entry.

[1] https://git.launchpad.net/maas/tree/src/provisioningserver/templates/uefi/config.local.amd64.template

Lee Trager (ltrager)
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Lee Trager (ltrager)
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