AArch64 Simplied-Provisioner partition type listed as Empty

[pcdubs]

When using the IoT simplified-provisioning tool on AArch64, the installation is successful but fails to boot and drops to a grub prompt.

Inspecting the included image on the iso ( https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/iot/Fedora-IoT-40-20240604.0/compose/IoT/aarch64/iso/Fedora-IoT-provisioner-40-20240604.0.aarch64.iso )

fdisk -l image.raw 
Disk image.raw: 10 GiB, 10737418240 bytes, 20971520 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xc1748067

Device     Boot   Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
image.raw1 *       2048  1028095  1026048  501M  6 FAT16
image.raw2      1028096  3125247  2097152    1G  0 Empty
image.raw3      3125248 20971519 17846272  8.5G  0 Empty

The partitions are missing the partition type, using fdisk to change it to Linux:

Device     Boot   Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
image.raw1 *       2048  1028095  1026048  501M  6 FAT16
image.raw2      1028096  3125247  2097152    1G 83 Linux
image.raw3      3125248 20971519 17846272  8.5G 83 Linux

Boots as expected in a VM.

[auphof]

Hello @pcdubs , I was just writing up the same issue and before pressing submit I thought I better check again I am not duplicating
I confirm the same Empty partition types with the following and no customization of the Grub creates the disk image but fails first boot going into grub console

sudo virt-install --connect qemu:///system \
        --name $VM_NAME \
        --os-variant 'fedora40' \
        --boot loader=/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_CODE.fd,loader_ro=yes,loader_type=pflash,nvram_template=/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_VARS.fd \
        --vcpus 2 --memory 3072 \
        --network network=default,model=virtio \
        --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$VM_NAME.img,size=15,format=qcow2,bus=virtio \
        --cdrom /media/fedora/Fedora-IoT-provisioner-40-20240422.3.aarch64.iso

at the grub prompt attempt to list the partitions

grub> ls
(memdisk) (proc) (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (cd0) 

only 1 partition is visible

mount the disk image and look at the disk partitions i notice on the failed first boot (simplified provision on aarch64 ) partitions look as follow

# fdisk -l ...   
....
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xc1748067

Device      Boot   Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/nbd0p1 *       2048  1028095  1026048  501M  6 FAT16
/dev/nbd0p2      1028096  3125247  2097152    1G  0 Empty
/dev/nbd0p3      3125248 20971519 17846272  8.5G  0 Empty

I also note the disk label type is dos as apposed to gpt on a working x86_64 or an aarch64 vm based on the ostree iso

[pcdubs]

Thanks @auphof .

Currently AArch64 gets set to dos to support the Raspberry Pi- which isn't a target for simplified-provisioning (yet), so I think it makes sense to change it to gpt as well.

[pcdubs]

Fixed.