[Users] proliant errors trying to install ovirt-node image

[Joey Boggs]

On 03/05/2012 01:34 PM, Joe Pruett wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 08:04 AM, Joe Pruett wrote:
>> On 03/05/2012 07:00 AM, Joey Boggs wrote:
>>> On 03/05/2012 07:49 AM, Huy, Hermann (NSN - DE/Munich) wrote:
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From:users-bounces at ovirt.org  [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On
>>>>> Behalf Of ext Joe Pruett
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 2:11 AM
>>>>> To:users at ovirt.org
>>>>> Subject: [Users] proliant errors trying to install ovirt-node image
>>>>>
>>>>> i've already found the info on the list about the "global name 'disk'
>>>>> not defined" error and i've tried both an iso from the jenkins url
>>>>> listed, as well as creating my own git area using the 2.2.3 tagged code
>>>>> and making the one line change to fix that python error.  but neither
>>>>> of
>>>>> those images work either.   i get a generic "ovirt node hypervisor
>>>>> installation failed" message.  i've poked around the log viewers and at
>>>>> the end i see it complaining that the gpt partition label has no bios
>>>>> bootable partition, but it isn't clear if that is really the issue.
>>>> I ran into the same problems as you when trying to install on a
>>>> HP ProLiant BL460c G1 blade.
>>>>
>>>> The Red Hat Bugzilla report #798030 "TUI Installation fails with
>>>>   Grub error" seems to address exactly this kind of problem.
>>>>
>>>> The grub2-setup complaining has got its reason: In file script/storage.py
>>>> the disk partitioning is done using a GPT, but no partition with
>>>> flag bios_grub is created.
>>>>
>>>> I modified the source (mis-)using the first partition (EFI partition)
>>>> in case of a non-EFI boot as a bios_grub flagged partition. This
>>>> partition is much bigger than necessary (grub2.info recommends one
>>>> or two MB), thus leaving some room for optimization for the experts when
>>>> fixing the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Please find the patch that allowed successful installation in the
>>>> attachment.
>>> Can you submit this through gerrit, its looks fine to me and I don't 
>>> see any problem merging it.
>>> http://ovirt.org/wiki/Working_with_gerrit.ovirt.org
>>
>> i'll be testing this later and will give feedback.
>>
>>>>> i'm
>>>>> wondering if there might be more cciss driver issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> i haven't dug into the source to figure out the root pw so i could more
>>>>> easily look at the log files or export them.  can someone enlighten me
>>>>> with that more quickly than i can find it?
>>>> As I am stuck to reading log files online or exporting them via screen shots,
>>>> I am also interested in learning about better ways of exporting.
>>> The root password isn't set by default, you can however press F2 
>>> inside the installer or the configuration menus  to get to a shell 
>>> prompt and setup networking to get logs off there.
>>
>> i discovered that the root pw is explicitly locked.  f2 does nothing 
>> at the error screen, alt-f2 shows a login prompt.  does f2 stop 
>> working at some point during the process?
>>
>
> ok, i've dug into this more.  my system does not have efi, but the 
> install process is creating an efi partition and making it bootable.  
> it looks like it always does this, all that efi presence seems to do 
> is change the starting sector for the efi partition.  so i can't quite 
> see how this works for anyone else :-).
>
> and i got f2 to work.  it doesn't work while in a log viewer, but does 
> work at the final 'install failed' screen.  so i can poke around now.  
> what logs or other info would be of use to look at this more?  i may 
> also try installing a non cciss card into this box to see if that is 
> the real root of the problem.
>
>
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