BIOS boot not supported

[esvmicrosoft]

Actual behavior
leap upgrade does not create a BOOT entry in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg required for BIOS machines pick the Centos7 to AlmaLinux conversion.

To Reproduce
Deploy a Gen1 server in Azure (they use BIOS boot), use ELevate to migrate from CentOS7 to AlmaLinux8, follow the normal process: leapp upgrade, reboot, and the machine will boot into the regular kernel.

[azureuser@centos7i ~]$ history
1 sudo yum update -y
2 sudo reboot
3 sudo yum install -y http://repo.almalinux.org/elevate/elevate-release-latest-el$(rpm --eval %rhel).noarch.rpm
4 sudo yum install -y leapp-upgrade leapp-data-almalinux
5 sudo leapp preupgrade
6 vi /var/log/leapp/leapp-report.txt
7 sudo vi /var/log/leapp/leapp-report.txt
8 sudo leapp answer --section remove_pam_pkcs11_module_check.confirm=True
9 sudo leapp upgrade
10 reboot

Expected behavior
After running sudo leapp upgrade boot into the ELevate temporary image and perform the in-place upgrade, however the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg is not updated to reflect the new initramfs.

System information (please complete the following information):

[azureuser@centos7i ~]$ cat /etc/system*
cat: /etc/systemd: Is a directory
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

uname -a : Linux centos7i 3.10.0-1160.118.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 24 16:01:50 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


# rpm -qa "leapp*"
[azureuser@centos7i ~]$ rpm -qa |grep leapp
leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-deps-0.16.0-6.el7.elevate.20.noarch
leapp-0.14.0-1.el7.noarch
leapp-deps-0.14.0-1.el7.noarch
leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-0.16.0-6.el7.elevate.20.noarch
leapp-data-almalinux-0.2-5.el7.noarch
python2-leapp-0.14.0-1.el7.noarch

Azure image name: : openlogic:centos-lvm:7-lvm:latest

Attach (or provide link to) log files if applicable (optional - may contain confidential information):

• All files in /var/log/leapp
• /var/lib/leapp/leapp.db
• journalctl
• If you want, you can optionally send anything else would you like to provide (e.g. storage info)

For your convenience you can pack all logs with this command:

# tar -czf leapp-logs.tar.gz /var/log/leapp /var/lib/leapp/leapp.db

Then you may attach only the leapp-logs.tar.gz file.

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Additional context
original file split into 8 parts with the split command, just concatenate all files and use: tar -xvf file.tar.xz

xah.txt
xag.txt
xaf.txt
xae.txt
xad.txt
xac.txt
xab.txt
xaa.txt

[andrewlukoshko]

@esvmicrosoft Can you please check with latest version?
We rebased to leapp-repository 0.19.0