PXE GRUB menu is not showing the profiles

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Environment

SUSE Manager Server 4.2

Situation

The server to be installed is using EFI.
The menu after PXE is only showing the distributions.

Resolution

Due to a change upstream, the behavior of the PXE GRUB menu has changed. The showed distribution is a sub-menu. When selecting an item, all profiles will be displayed that have the distribution as source.

This can also been seen in /srv/tftpboot/grub # cat x86_64_menu_items.cfg:

submenu 's153-st1:1:suse' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry 'SL_SERVER:1:suse' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
  echo 'Loading kernel ...'
  clinux /images/s153-st1:1:suse/linux  self_update=0 install=http://susemanager.suse.com/ks/dist/s153-st1 insecure=1 useonlinerepo=1  autoyast=http://susemanager.suse.com/cblr/svc/op/autoinstall/profile/SL_SERVER:1:suse
  echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
  cinitrd /images/s153-st1:1:suse/initrd
}
menuentry 'mgt-nicd-mon1:1:suse' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
  echo 'Loading kernel ...'
  clinux /images/s153-st1:1:suse/linux  self_update=0 install=http://susemanager.suse.com/ks/dist/s153-st1 insecure=1 useonlinerepo=1  autoyast=http://susemanager.suse.com/cblr/svc/op/autoinstall/profile/mgt-nicd-mon1:1:suse
  echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
  cinitrd /images/s153-st1:1:suse/initrd
}

This happens only for EFI. When using traditional BIOS, nothing has changed.

Cause

Working as designed. The change is coming from upstream.

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