[Users] problem building latest node iso image from git

[Jorick Astrego]

On 08/29/2012 10:38 AM, Jorick Astrego wrote:
> On 08/28/2012 04:56 PM, Joey Boggs wrote:
>> On 08/28/2012 10:34 AM, Jorick Astrego wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> After some unsuccessful attempts to install the stable node image on 
>>> our hardware, I found a patch that can help me.
>>>
>>> I followed all the steps in the wiki to build a node image and got 
>>> the build process working (Fedora 17).
>>>
>>> The successfully built iso fails to start correctly and I get a 
>>> login prompt. During the built process I had some errors that could 
>>> be the cause:
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The build continued so it might be ok although some thing need to 
>> possibly be fixed.
>>
>> One thing to try it to boot into rescue mode and then manually run 
>> /usr/libexec/ovirt-config-installer.  It should at least give out the 
>> error it failed on. Also more detail on:  what kind of install media, 
>> cd, usb, pxe and what was the hardware problem you had with your 
>> specific machine?
Without the installer CD the system doesn't boot at all, I just get a 
black screen. When I boot a Fedora CD in rescue mode it says something 
like, "no linux partitions found" and I cannot mount the disk as it 
doesn't recognize a filesystem.

Our hardware:
Supermicro X8DTL-I with Areca ARC-1120 RAID

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/qpi/5500/x8dtl-i.cfm

The first problem I have is with installation, I get a similar message as:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849937

    Clean install ovirt-node-iso-2.5.999-999.20120817153122git10fbec7.297.fc17 failed when an exception has occurred
    with error "ovirtnode.storage:/dev/mapper/3600*600094" is not available"

I think I need the following patch for this that's already merged but 
not in stable I read.

    http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/7504/

    installer: don't remove log2 directory when merging log files

After that I installed a minimal Fedora 17 to try that and it installs 
without problems.

But it detects the cpu as Conroe and not Nehalem E5520 so we're missing 
out on some cpu features.

    Same as this:
    http://www.mail-archive.com/users@ovirt.org/msg03046.html

    oVIrt 3.1 - Xeon E5530 - Wrong cpu identification

    http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/5035/

    BZ#737104 Disallow cross-vendor virtualization.

    Find vendor for all cpu models, including those based on another
    cpu module.


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