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There is no needle with tag of 'boot-firmware'. We should add the needle to fix this issue.

linux-zyts:/var/lib/openqa/share/tests/sle/products/sle/needles # grep -Rni 'boot-firmware'
linux-zyts:/var/lib/openqa/share/tests/sle/products/sle/needles #

This needle tag has been included with

commit 4631bd4e
Author: Jozef Pupava <jpupava@suse.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 26 09:06:13 2017 +0100

    Workaround boot HDD on aarch64

    It will still not boot because it's broken but at least it will be more obvious
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022064

to detect the bug situation and then record a soft failure. However, the bug is marked as VERIFIED WONTFIX so I think the code block should not be there at all. At least the record_soft_failure should not be there. Maybe it should be replaced by a die-message with a helpful content pointing to the right direction, e.g. wrong test settings.

Compare to a standard aarch64-installation and test job: https://openqa.suse.de/tests/1558430#settings . This job differs because there is no setting BOOTFROM=d nor BOOT_HDD_IMAGE=1 as there is no system installed it boots from the DVD. Maybe it would help to include the same steps as for the image based tests, e.g. extra_tests_on_gnome

In the function boot_local_disk:

if (check_var('ARCH', 'aarch64') and get_var('UEFI')) {
assert_screen 'boot-firmware';
}

I checked these failed aarch64 testcases, all with 'UEFI' = 1. So it failed for entered wrong process. I will set the 'UEFI' = 0 after upgrade to SLES15 finished and verify it on my own machine.

that's weird because aarch64 by default always sets the flag UEFI=1. Also see the machine definition on https://openqa.suse.de/admin/machines . But it is a good idea to try out if the other branch works better by setting the flag to off once if you can.

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This bug is still referenced in a failing openQA test: media_upgrade_sles12sp3+alladdons_aarch64
https://openqa.suse.de/tests/1570085

Seems
https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/blob/master/tests/migration/reboot_to_upgrade.pm#L30
this caused the issue

Sorry, it maybe a missing needle problem

log said:
[debug] <<< testapi::assert_screen(mustmatch='boot-firmware', timeout=30)

See: https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/blob/master/lib/bootloader_setup.pm#L76
we don't ever create this needle.

Actually what we need is to send 'enter' after move up to 'Boot from Hard Disk', and before sending the key, we have to satisfy the 'boot-firmware' needle.

And I don't know why the name of the tag is firmware since i didn't see firmware screenshot.

could be that this code looks like copied from somewhere else and applied incorrectly but leli is right about the test variable. Though I suggest to not look for any needle "boot-firmware" because I assume it is time critical.