perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jim Warner <>]

Timely, I think.  I have this problem, too. But what I get is a hung system. This occurs right after I get congratulated for successfully installing and told to click the reboot button:

http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/centos-boot-1.JPG

http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/centos-boot-2.JPG

I don't see anything at the installation instructions cited in the FAQ that helps.

-jim

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Jason Zurawski <> wrote:

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