perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Hey Chris;

On the matter of your NIC not holding a static address, see this FAQ item:

http://www.perfsonar.net/about/faq/#Q64

Hope this helps, thanks;

-jason

On Jan 12, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Chris Dagdigian 
<>
 wrote:

> 
> 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