[ovirt-users] oVirt Node 4.1.6 on IBM x3650 M3

[Yuval Turgeman]

Hi,

We did have some problems in the past with efi, but they should be fixed by
now.
Did you use the ISO for installation ?  What error are you seeing - which
file is missing there ?

Thanks,
Yuval.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Jonathan Baecker <jonbae77 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you, good to know that this works! I need to play a bit with it.
>
>
>
> Am 26.10.2017 um 21:59 schrieb Eduardo Mayoral:
>
>> Yes, I use power management with ipmilan, no issues.
>>
>> I do have license on the IMM for remote console, but that is not a
>> requirement, AFAIK.
>>
>> I remember I first tried to use for oVirt a dedicated login on the IMM
>> with just "Remote Server Power/Restart Access" and I could not get to
>> work, so I just granted "Supervisor" to the dedicated login. Other than
>> that, no problem.
>>
>> Eduardo Mayoral Jimeno (emayoral at arsys.es)
>> Administrador de sistemas. Departamento de Plataformas. Arsys internet.
>> +34 941 620 145 ext. 5153
>>
>> On 26/10/17 21:47, Jonathan Baecker wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, for your commands! I have now also install CentOS minimal,
>>> this works. I only though that oVirt Node have some optimizations, but
>>> maybe not.
>>>
>>> @Eduardo Mayoral, can I ask you that you are able with this servers,
>>> to use the power management? As I understand, they support ipmilan,
>>> but I don't know how...
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> Am 24.10.2017 um 23:41 schrieb Sean McMurray:
>>>
>>>> I have seen this problem before. For some reason, oVirt Node 4.1.x
>>>> does not always install everything right for efi. In my limited
>>>> experience, it fails to do it correctly 4 out of 5 times. The mystery
>>>> to me is why it gets it right sometimes. I solve the problem by
>>>> manually copying the missing file into my efi boot partition.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/24/2017 12:46 PM, Eduardo Mayoral wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 3 of my compute nodes are IBM x3650 M3 . I do not use oVirt Node but
>>>>> rather plain CentOS 7 for the compute nodes. I use 4.1.6 too.
>>>>>
>>>>> I remember I had a bad time trying to disable UEFI on the BIOS of
>>>>> those servers. In my opinion, the firmware in that model ridden with
>>>>> problems. In the end, I installed with UEFI (You will need a
>>>>> /boot/efi partition)
>>>>>
>>>>> Once installed, I have not had any issues with them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eduardo Mayoral Jimeno (emayoral at arsys.es)
>>>>> Administrador de sistemas. Departamento de Plataformas. Arsys internet.
>>>>> +34 941 620 145 ext. 5153
>>>>> On 24/10/17 09:57, Jon bae wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>>> I would like to install oVirt Node on a IBM Machine, but after the
>>>>>> installation it can not boot. I get the message:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "/boot/efi/..." file not found
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I try many different things like turn of uefi options in bios etc.
>>>>>> but with no effect.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now I figure out that when I install full CentOS 7.3 from live DVD
>>>>>> it just boot normal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any workaround to get this to work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>>
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