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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I</span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> wanted
to update on how we overcame below install issue and successfully installed Fedora 23 on our </span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">power server</span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">.
This install error was caused by Driver </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">bug </span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">(Avago RAID card, our storage controller) for which
the fix is process. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">This bug manifests itself to the end user who is installing Fedora 23/22 on Avago RAID based as: Partitioning / mounting of file system as “ext4” failed. Hence the install process fails.</span></font></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">More details about bug </span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">can be found in last few comments of this ubuntu bug (We found this bug while
installing ubuntu 15.04 for the first time):</span></font></div>
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<div>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1475166</div>
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For now following work around can be used to install Fedora 23 on power systems with Avago raid card:</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1) Power on and wait system boots into Petitboot:</div>
<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1a) Press "e" on "Install Fedora 23 (64-bit kernel)" option and append "<font color="#0000ff">megaraid_sas.max_sectors=2048</font>" in the end of "boot argument"</div>
<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2) Select modified option and follow the installation process. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3</span><span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">) After install is complete
and you are back to Petitboot: Edit booting option by appending <span style="color: blue;">megaraid_sas.max_sectors=2048<font color="#000000">, and boot with completed install.</font></span></span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font color="#ff0000">***IMPORTANT NOTE*** Step 3 is needed for every boot time, or you will get system going
to failure due to system can't mount file system. </font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font color="#ff0000">Alternatively we can add this to Grub config to avoid repeating this process.<br>
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<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000">Please give it a try as possible.</font></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Also any advise on how to best track this on corresponding Fedora board would be appreciated. </div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;">If what I am doing currently is enough (sharing on this mailing list), that’s good to know also.</div>
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<font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000">Adi</font></font></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Rackspace Hosting <<a href="mailto:adi.gangidi@rackspace.com">adi.gangidi@rackspace.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, September 11, 2015 at 1:06 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org">ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org">ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Aaron Sullivan <<a href="mailto:aaron.sullivan@rackspace.com">aaron.sullivan@rackspace.com</a>>, Major Hayden <<a href="mailto:major.hayden@rackspace.com">major.hayden@rackspace.com</a>>, John Hincher <<a href="mailto:john.hincher@rackspace.com">john.hincher@rackspace.com</a>>,
Antony Messerli <<a href="mailto:amesserl@rackspace.com">amesserl@rackspace.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: Fedora 23 Install Issues on PPC64LE Server<br>
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<div>Adding some more info that I had written down for one of our community members:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Hello Jakub</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Here is the response to your questions.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Q: Do you observe same behavior of console with f21/f22?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Install gets stuck at the same place: (Attached SCSI) in f21/f22 but</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">rescue shell does NOT freeze in f21/f22.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Q: What do you use to obtain console(ipmi sol, physical connection,Š)?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">‹Physical connection: Serial USB cable attached to debug port on server.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Q: What are you using as installation source(DVD, PXE, USB, remote</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">repo,....) and what image are you using(netinst/dvd)?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">‹ Installation source is a Fedora 23 DVD content put on a USB stick.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Q: Are disks already partitioned or are empty?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">‹ Disks where previously partitioned (I had powerkvm installed on there)</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">but this error occurs before I can get to the partition screen.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Q: Have you been successful with booting/installing any other linux</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">‹ Yes Ubuntu 14.04 / 14.10 (PPC64LE) installed smoothly. With Ubuntu 15.04</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">install I ran into this install error on partitioning Avago raid:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">However we are working around that bug by setting max_sectors of Megaraid</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">module manually and thus able to finish the install.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">We are also able to install powerKVM (IBM¹s PPC64LE KVM)</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Rackspace Hosting <<a href="mailto:adi.gangidi@rackspace.com">adi.gangidi@rackspace.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 6:40 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org">ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org">ppc@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Aaron Sullivan <<a href="mailto:aaron.sullivan@rackspace.com">aaron.sullivan@rackspace.com</a>>, Major Hayden <<a href="mailto:major.hayden@rackspace.com">major.hayden@rackspace.com</a>>, John Hincher <<a href="mailto:john.hincher@rackspace.com">john.hincher@rackspace.com</a>>,
Antony Messerli <<a href="mailto:amesserl@rackspace.com">amesserl@rackspace.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Fedora 23 Install Issues on PPC64LE Server<br>
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