[CentOS-devel] CentOS for ppc64le bare-metal install failed on S822L

Wed Dec 23 10:08:27 UTC 2015

Hello Tan,

We have an infrastructure which takes the iso and extract the kernel
initrd infos in order to have petitboot happy. So it is basically a nfs
mount of the everything iso.

Let me know if you need more info

Regards
Thierry

On 23/12/15 02:05, Yan Hui Tan wrote:
> HI Thierry, Thanks for your quickly reply.
> The ISO was downloaded from community, as the size is a little big, and
> we don't have an enough volume CD, so we made a bootdisk with an U flash
> disk, then used the U disk to install. I suspect maybe there is some
> issue when made the bootdisk. We will have a further check.
> 
> How did you install it? use network install?
> 
> Best Regards,
> ==========================================
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> Technical Sales Specialist
> IBM China, Technology Partnership
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> E-Mail: yanhuit at cn.ibm.com
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> ---2015/12/23 00:11:07---Hello Tan, I was able to do a bare metal
> "Thierry Fauck at linux.vnet.ibm.com" ---2015/12/23 00:11:07---Hello Tan, I
> was able to do a bare metal install with timezone Europe using vnc.
> 
> From: "Thierry Fauck at linux.vnet.ibm.com" <thierry at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: centos-devel at centos.org
> Date: 2015/12/23 00:11
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS for ppc64le bare-metal install failed
> on S822L
> Sent by: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org
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> 
> 
> 
> Hello Tan,
> 
> I was able to do a bare metal install with timezone Europe using vnc.
> Then I tried a new install without vnc and using timezone asia
> 
> and I had no issue - so I suspect you had a trouble during copy of the
> iso - have you checked checksum ?
> 
> Let us know how it goes
> 
> Thx
> 
> Regards
> Thierry
> 
> 
> On 22/12/2015 15:30, Thierry Fauck at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>>
>> Hello Tan
>>
>> I know some tests have been done (I also successfully did a PowerKVM one
>> ) but as I don't know which one, I am going to try myself and let you
> know.
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> Thierry
>>
>> On 22/12/2015 14:40, Yan Hui Tan wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We ran into below error when install CentOS on bare-metal S822L(OPAL
>>> firmware), does it now support bare-metal installation?
>>> With the same iso we successfully installed it in a PowerKVM guest.
>>>
>>> 5) Asia
>>> Please select the timezone.
>>> Use numbers or type names directly [b to region list, q to quit]: 5
>>> ** (anaconda:5706): WARNING **: Could not open X display
>>>
>>> An unknown error has occured, look at the /tmp/anaconda-tb* file(s) for
>>> more details
>>>
>>>
>>>
> ===============================================================================
>>> An unknown error has occurred
>>>
> ===============================================================================
>>> anaconda 21.48.22.56-1 exception report
>>> Traceback (most recent call first):
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/formats/fs.py", line 703,
>>> in unmount
>>> raise FSError("umount failed")
>>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/image.py", line 215,
>>> in opticalInstallMedia
>>> dev.format.unmount()
>>> File
>>> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/__init__.py",
>>> line 980, in _setupInstallDevice
>>> self.install_device = opticalInstallMedia(storage.devicetree)
>>> File
>>> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py",
>>> line 541, in updateBaseRepo
>>> url, mirrorlist, sslverify = self._setupInstallDevice(self.storage,
>>> checkmount)
>>> File
>>> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py",
>>> line 145, in inner_method
>>> ret = method(yum_payload, *args, **kwargs)
>>> File
>>> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/__init__.py",
>>> line 1253, in _runThread
>>> payload.updateBaseRepo(fallback=fallback, checkmount=checkmount)
>>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 764, in run
>>> self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
>>> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line
>>> 227, in run
>>> threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
>>> FSError: umount failed
>>>
>>> What do you want to do now?
>>> 1) Report Bug
>>> 2) Debug
>>> 3) Quit
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> ==========================================
>>> Tan, Yanhui (谭艳辉)
>>> Technical Sales Specialist
>>> IBM China, Technology Partnership
>>> Mobile: 186 0137 8245
>>> E-Mail: yanhuit at cn.ibm.com
>>> Add: 20/F, Pangu Plaza, No. 27, Central North Fourth Ring Road, Chaoyang
>>> District, Beijing,100101,China.
>>>
>>>
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>>
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