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

Tue Oct 31 14:08:59 UTC 2017

We have an outstanding problem with 7.4 images on EFI, since platform moved
"grub2-efi" to "grub2-efi-x86_64". There's a patch pending here:
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/83008/

Hopefully merged soon.

In the meantime, using Anaconda from CentOS 7.3 via kickstart (with the
latest Node image) would work, but this isn't very convenient.

Otherwise, you can drop to a shell and manually copy
/run/sysroot/.../grubx64.efi to /boot/efi, but this isn't very nice.

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Yuval Turgeman <yuvalt at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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