[Users] Ovirt Node Automated Installation... full unattended installation?

[Fabian Deutsch]

Am Dienstag, den 05.02.2013, 16:02 -0800 schrieb No Reply:
> No comments?  J  This has to be an important feature of oVirt no?

Hey,

does it basically work - e.g. when booting from USB - when you add the
BOOTIF=eth0 storage_init parameters?

So using a device name instead of a mac address?

Greetings
fabian

> From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On
> Behalf Of No Reply
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 20:30
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt Node Automated Installation... full
> unattended installation?
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> The plot thickens…  I removed BOOTIF and used IPAPPEND 2 directive
> which per the documentation does automatic append of BOOTIF parameter
> using the MAC of the adapter that PXE used, and received the
> DHCPOFFER… then the automated installation worked as the documentation
> suggests.  Does this make sense, or is this some type of odd quirk or
> bug?
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> Does not work… (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is not the real MAC used, just
> redacted the real MAC)…
> 
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> 
> KERNEL images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/vmlinuz0
> 
> APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/initrd0.img
> root=live:/ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso rootfstype=auto ro
> liveimg check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
> elevator=deadline rd_NO_LVM rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
> storage_init=/dev/sda BOOTIF=<FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF>
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> Works…
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> 
> KERNEL images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/vmlinuz0
> 
> IPAPPEND 2
> 
> APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/initrd0.img
> root=live:/ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso rootfstype=auto ro
> liveimg check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
> elevator=deadline rd_NO_LVM rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
> storage_init=/dev/sda
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> From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On
> Behalf Of Schorschi
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 20:07
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: [Users] Ovirt Node Automated Installation... full unattended
> installation?
> 
> 
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> 
> Ok, reading the RHEV-H node automated installation, given the oVirt
> documentation states the same automated installation parameters are
> supported, I can’t see to resolve one key issue…
> 
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> 
> First boot  of PXE configuration does an ‘uninstall’ to ensure no past
> installation of oVirt node exists… this works 100% unattended.
> However using install or reinstall or local_boot (a.k.a. upgrade) or
> even firstboot option, and even no option, on the APPEND command line
> via PXE, the automated installation stops.  Waiting for interactive
> response?  Is this the expected behavior?  Even just using
> init_storage and BOOTIF, the only two required parameters, the
> automated process stops for interactive input?  So how do you do a
> completely automated installation with zero human interactive action
> required?
> 
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> 
> Uninstall…  This works as expected…
> 
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> 
> KERNEL images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/vmlinuz0
> 
> APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/initrd0.img
> root=live:/ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso rootfstype=auto ro
> liveimg check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
> elevator=deadline uninstall
> 
>  
> 
> Install…  This does not work as expected, per how the documentation
> implies it should?
> 
>  
> 
> KERNEL images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/vmlinuz0
> 
> APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=images/oVirt/2.5.5-0.1/initrd0.img
> root=live:/ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso rootfstype=auto ro
> liveimg check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
> elevator=deadline rd_NO_LVM rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
> storage_init=/dev/sda BOOTIF=<FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF>
> 
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