RHEL8/9: LPAR is not booting up after inactive LPM
Issue
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When booting an LPAR with processors in shared mode after performing an inactive LPM, the system hangs while loading Grub:
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At this time the issue is found to affect RHEL 8.7 and RHEL 9.1.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9
- ppc64le
- grub2
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