Re: [cobbler] Ilo baremetal

[Alan Evangelista]

On 03/17/2015 12:43 PM, Sethuraman, Murali wrote:
>  I had tried with the latest fence agents too, and the same results 
>  were seen. I had raised a bug with redhat on this 
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200998 and waiting on 
>  updates after the initial exchange of logs and information. It seems 
>  to be pointing to “ipmiutil”. 
Providing feedback to the Cobbler mailing list...
Murali posted on the bug that iLo fence agents work fine, this was 
simply a firewall issue.

Regards,
Alan Evangelista

Ilo baremetal

[Sethuraman, Murali]

Hi Alan/Cobbler buddies,
I have a situation, where in I need to inject a specific "hpvsa" RAID driver in
the cobbler ks. I tried the below, but does not work. Appreciate if you can let me know
how to do this correctly and make it work.

Use case:
- HP physical blade with B210i RAID controller, that needs the hpvsa driver loaded prior
to kickstart
- Need to load RHEL7 on this server with the RAID controller on it

What had been tried so far:

- I had tried to do add "driverdisk --source=http://...../", and have the
hpvsa.iso/img file hosted on the http link, but would not work [RHEL7 OS load completes,
and at the post-install step errors out "bootloader install failed"]. 

- The bootloader statement in ks is - bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda
--append="crashkernel=auto notsc rdblacklist=ahci rdloaddriver=hpvsa,hpsa"

- I tried to add the hpvsa rpm package to my RHEL7 repository [imported via cobbler
import], by copying the package, and adding the statement "kmod-hpvsa" to the
%packages section in ks. While loading the packages, kmod-hpvsa package not found is
displayed 

- I also tried to copy the rpm kmod-hpvsa and the repodata associated with it, to my RHEL7
repository, still the same error "kmod-hpvsa package not found"

Please let me know.

Thanks
Murali K Sethuraman
Lead Platform Engineer, Tech Ops
Murali.Sethuraman(a)CapitalOne.com

Phone: [phone] Tie: 433
Cell: 804-814-1187
Visit OMS @ https://pulse.kdc.capitalone.com/groups/oms

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Evangelista [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 1:44 AM
To: Sethuraman, Murali; cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org; Uma Harini (umaharini(a)gmail.com)
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Ilo baremetal

On 03/17/2015 12:43 PM, Sethuraman, Murali wrote:
>  I had tried with the latest fence agents too, and the same results 
>  were seen. I had raised a bug with redhat on this
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200998 and waiting on 
>  updates after the initial exchange of logs and information. It seems 
>  to be pointing to “ipmiutil”.
>  
Providing feedback to the Cobbler mailing list...
Murali posted on the bug that iLo fence agents work fine, this was simply a firewall
issue.

Regards,
Alan Evangelista

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Ilo baremetal

[Alastair Munro]

Hi

This is more of a boot/load driver issue? Sounds like you need to steal an initrd image
that already has the kernel mod installed, boot off that and then pass a kernal arg to
force loading of it? BTW isn't all this HP raid stuff hidden underneath and the cciss
driver just sees it as a disk? I have worked with a lot of HP servers and there isn't
anything special other than setting up the underlying raid volume in advance of os
install?

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Sethuraman, Murali" <Murali.Sethuraman(a)capitalone.com&gt;
To: Alan Evangelista <alanoe(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;,
&quot;cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org&quot; <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org&gt;,
"Uma
	Harini (umaharini(a)gmail.com)&quot; <umaharini(a)gmail.com&gt;
Sent: Sun, 17 May 2015 21:00
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Ilo baremetal

Hi Alan/Cobbler buddies,
I have a situation, where in I need to inject a specific "hpvsa" RAID driver in
the cobbler ks. I tried the below, but does not work. Appreciate if you can let me know
how to do this correctly and make it work.

Use case:
- HP physical blade with B210i RAID controller, that needs the hpvsa driver loaded prior
to kickstart
- Need to load RHEL7 on this server with the RAID controller on it

What had been tried so far:

- I had tried to do add "driverdisk --source=http://...../", and have the
hpvsa.iso/img file hosted on the http link, but would not work [RHEL7 OS load completes,
and at the post-install step errors out "bootloader install failed"]. 

- The bootloader statement in ks is - bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda
--append="crashkernel=auto notsc rdblacklist=ahci rdloaddriver=hpvsa,hpsa"

- I tried to add the hpvsa rpm package to my RHEL7 repository [imported via cobbler
import], by copying the package, and adding the statement "kmod-hpvsa" to the
%packages section in ks. While loading the packages, kmod-hpvsa package not found is
displayed 

- I also tried to copy the rpm kmod-hpvsa and the repodata associated with it, to my RHEL7
repository, still the same error "kmod-hpvsa package not found"

Please let me know.

Thanks
Murali K Sethuraman
Lead Platform Engineer, Tech Ops
Murali.Sethuraman(a)CapitalOne.com

Phone: [phone] Tie: 433
Cell: 804-814-1187
Visit OMS @ https://pulse.kdc.capitalone.com/groups/oms

Quote of the week: Certain is Uncertain, Uncertain is Certain….

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Evangelista [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 1:44 AM
To: Sethuraman, Murali; cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org; Uma Harini (umaharini(a)gmail.com)
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Ilo baremetal

On 03/17/2015 12:43 PM, Sethuraman, Murali wrote:
>  I had tried with the latest fence agents too, and the same results 
>  were seen. I had raised a bug with redhat on this
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200998 and waiting on 
>  updates after the initial exchange of logs and information. It seems 
>  to be pointing to “ipmiutil”. 
Providing feedback to the Cobbler mailing list...
Murali posted on the bug that iLo fence agents work fine, this was simply a firewall
issue.

Regards,
Alan Evangelista

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Ilo baremetal

[Alan Evangelista]

On 05/17/2015 05:00 PM, Sethuraman, Murali wrote:
>  I have a situation, where in I need to inject a specific
> "hpvsa" RAID driver in the cobbler ks. I tried the below, but does not work.
> Appreciate if you can let me know how to do this correctly and make it work. 
In the future, please create another topic when the subject changes. 
This has nothing to do with ilo anymore.

Regarding your problem, I have never setup a disk driver via kickstart, 
so I cant help much. afaik if you want that
anaconda detects a disk device , its driver should be in initrd.img?


Regards,
Alan Evangelista