[Starlingx-discuss] ipxe boot iso?

[Curtis]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:57 PM Curtis <serverascode at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:46 AM Arce Moreno, Abraham <
> abraham.arce.moreno at intel.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Curtis,
>>
>> > Out of curiosity has anyone ipxe booted stx from the ISO?
>>
>> Yes, I have tried a couple of times being able to load both the kernel
>> and initrd from other Linux distros and StarlingX,
>> At the end I was able to boot and install other distros but not
>> StarlingX, here you have all my learning written:
>>   https://github.com/xe1gyq/starlingx/blob/master/Packet.md
>>
>> > I'm doing a bit of testing in trying to get stx installed on baremetal
>> packet.com
>> > <http://packet.com>  nodes and will need to ipxe boot. I thought I'd
>> ask before I
>> > went to far into working on it. The easy way of using "kernel
>> > https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk iso raw" and the ISO via http did not
>> work,
>> > ran out of memory, so might have to get a little more complicated. :)
>>
>> However, whehn working with StarlingX ISO, I run into the issue of not
>> being able to get into the console, Packet Customer Service greatly
>> supported me (Chat with an agent is a great option) and reply back after
>> investigating:
>>
>> <Begin Packet Customer Service>
>>
>> For the ISO issue we would suggest on setting the kernel options. Let him
>> know that our x86 servers require console=ttyS1,115200n8, and our aarch64
>> servers require console=ttyAMA0,115200
>> We recommend to try adding 'console=ttyS1,115200n8' on your t1.small
>> server
>> eg. kernel https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk iso raw
>> console=ttyS1,115200n8
>>
>> <End Packet Customer Service>
>>
>> So, I tried that once but got this error:
>>
>> iPXE> kernel https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk iso raw
>> console=ttyS1,115200n8
>> https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk... ok
>> Could not select: Exec format error (http://ipxe.org/2e008081)
>>
>>
> Interesting, as I didn't get that error, instead I received one about
> running out of disk space, which I assume is b/c ipxe/memdisk doesn't load
> up that much room.
>
> Thanks for the info, I will keep looking into this. :)
>
>
FYI I've got an initial installation working and have documented it on the
wiki:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/StarlingX_Packet.com_iPXE_Installation

Not sure if that is the right place for it, and I'm still tweaking it, but
that will at least install STX from an ISO on a packet.com node.

Thanks,
Curtis



> Thanks,
> Curtis
>
>
>
>> Due to other stuff going around, I did not follow up, I will try it again
>> this week and see how far I get.  Let me know if you want me to help with
>> any specific task.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Abraham
>>
>
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