[Users] How to pxeboot ovrit node into memory automatically?

[Fabian Deutsch]

Am Montag, den 02.12.2013, 13:53 -0800 schrieb David Li:
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> Everytime the ovirt node boots up, it adds a route entry that I have to manually remove. Otherwise it messed up my routing. 
>  How do I modify the boot scripts to automatically remove it?

Hey David,

could you file a bug for that route problem?

You can try the following workaround:

# Create /etc/rc.d/rc.local with the commands to run
$ vi /etc/rc.d/rc.local
$ chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.local
$ persist /etc/rc.d/rc.local

/etc/rc.d/rc.local should then be run on every boot.

- fabian

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand at redhat.com>
> > To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
> > Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 7:45 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] How to pxeboot ovrit node into memory automatically?
> > 
> > Am Montag, den 28.10.2013, 07:42 -0700 schrieb David Li:
> >> 
> >>  Hi Fabian,
> >> 
> >>  Yes rootpwd worked too! Thanks.
> >> 
> >>  Two new problems:
> >> 
> >>  But I found there is no networking for the stateless node.
> >>  What kernel boot options are used to either use DHCP  or statically 
> > configure the IP address for an interface on the node?
> >> 
> >>  I also need to have the sshd enabled. Is there a kernel option for that?
> > 
> > Hey David,
> > 
> > here you can find all the supported boot params in ovirt node:
> > http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-node.git;a=blob;f=scripts/ovirt-init-functions.sh.in;h=c4280caefb89c77afc1e8bec8c925aa7f3039733;hb=HEAD#l214
> > 
> > Greetings
> > fabian
> > 
> >>  David
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>  > From: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand at redhat.com>
> >>  > To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
> >>  > Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> >>  > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 9:10 AM
> >>  > Subject: Re: [Users] How to pxeboot ovrit node into memory 
> > automatically?
> >>  > 
> >>  > Am Freitag, den 25.10.2013, 08:57 -0700 schrieb David Li:
> >>  >>  Hi Fabian,
> >>  >> 
> >>  >>  That kernel option worked for me!  The node is booted up in RAM. 
> > Thanks!
> >>  >> 
> >>  >>  My next question is:
> >>  >> How do I specify the root login and passwd as boot parameters? 
> >>  > 
> >>  > Hey David.
> >>  > 
> >>  > Nice that it worked! Were you able to register to the Engine?
> >>  > 
> >>  > You can use the adminpw= and rootpw= kernel arguments to set 
> > passwords.
> >>  > use
> >>  > $ openssl passwd -salt 42
> >>  > to create one or two passwords
> >>  > 
> >>  > Greetings
> >>  > fabian
> >>  > 
> >>  >>  David
> >>  >> 
> >>  >> 
> >>  >> 
> >>  >> 
> >>  >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>  >>  > From: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand at redhat.com>
> >>  >>  > To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>
> >>  >>  > Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> >>  >>  > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:47 PM
> >>  >>  > Subject: Re: [Users] How to pxeboot ovrit node into memory 
> >>  > automatically?
> >>  >>  > 
> >>  >>  > Am Donnerstag, den 24.10.2013, 16:26 -0700 schrieb David Li:
> >>  >>  >>  Hi,
> >>  >>  >> 
> >>  >>  >>  I was following the instructions at 
> >>  > http://www.ovirt.org/Node_PXE. My goal 
> >>  >>  > is to use pxeboot (iPXE) to boot the node entirely into RAM 
> > with 
> >>  > rootfs. What I 
> >>  >>  > got now is an installation screen which requires a local 
> > storage. My 
> >>  > system has 
> >>  >>  > no disk and this doesn't quite work for me. 
> >>  >>  >> 
> >>  >>  >>  What's are the kernel parameters I need to use to 
> > boot the 
> >>  > node into 
> >>  >>  > RAM automatically?  I am OK as the first step with a 
> > stateless node. 
> >>  >>  > 
> >>  >>  > Hey David,
> >>  >>  > 
> >>  >>  > the stateless mode is currently not completely working with 
> > oVirt
> >>  >>  > Engine. That means a Node needs to be approved each time it 
> > boots into
> >>  >>  > the stateless mode.
> >>  >>  > The stateless mode can be entered by appending stateless to 
> > the 
> >>  > default
> >>  >>  > kernel arguments.
> >>  >>  > 
> >>  >>  > Greetings
> >>  >>  > fabian
> >>  >>  > 
> >>  > 
> >