perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Chris Dagdigian <>]

Following up on my own note to avoid anyone wasting time on my older 
message ...

Turns out perfSONAR installed mostly fine on the HP DL360 gen9.

Looks like a UEFI booting or support issue with our server type. If I 
choose a "One time Legacy BIOS" boot and then choose "One-time boot from 
local hard disk" within the legacy BIOS I can actually boot into the 
installed system.

That said, however, there are a few glitches:

- Static IP and NIC device info presented during the install is not 
preserved; the NIC was set to "dhcp" on the node that used the 
FullInstall method
- Static IP and NIC device info presented during the NetInstall is also 
not well handled; the NIC had all the static settings but BOOTPROTO was 
set to "DHCP" so it did not come up


Regards,
Chris




> Chris Dagdigian 
> <mailto:>
> January 12, 2015 at 4:22 PM
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm starting to build the first 3 perfSONAR systems for a small 
> pharmaceutical ScienceDMZ project and ran into some issues with the 
> ISO based installers. I'll also be in Ohio for the upcoming workshop 
> and am looking forward to meeting folks.
>
> So far both the full install and netInstall ISOs result in 
> non-bootable server systems. On one system I get a "no bootable 
> device" boot complaint after I chose "use full disk" during the 
> NetInstall process. On a 2nd test server I got to the grub menu after 
> the install but the actual boot fails with some sort of "not found" 
> error - this was on a server where I selected "replace existing Linux 
> system" during the disk query phase.
>
> It looks like the install goes fine but so much of the normal CentOS 
> prompts are hidden that I can't quite tell what is going on.
>
> Gut feeling is that the grub/bootloader stuff is going in badly or 
> it's not handling a UEFI enabled boot environment well.
>
> These are 3x HP DL360s with 8GB RAM, a bunch of 10-Gig NICs and a pair 
> of 1.2TB SAS disks mirrored as a RAID0 volume via the standard HP 
> controller
>
> I'm somewhat comfortable digging into CentOS debugging but figured I'd 
> ask the list before diving in to see if there are common issues or 
> workarounds  - or if anyone knows some Anaconda magic that would 
> decloak the hidden CentOS install questions that are presumably 
> pre-populated via the kickstart file.
>
> And finally any HP Proliant server tips/advice would be appreciated as 
> well. I could not even boot off of the perfSONAR installer ISOs 
> without triggering a "one time legacy BIOS boot" event in the HP ILO 
> remote management interface. I figure there may be a number of HP 
> config or BIOS settings that may need to be tweaked or tuned.
>
> Regards,
> Chris