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

Tan,
Glad it worked and your input is very good :
we know know that firmware may have an input on bare metal system
Thanks a lot

Regards
Thierry


On 23/12/15 12:12, Yan Hui Tan wrote:
> Hello Thierry,
> Today we upgraded the firmware to the latest version: 810_133, with the
> same iso in U flash disk, bare-metal installation succeed.
> thanks again for your input.
> 
> 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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> ---2015/12/23 18:09:47---Hello Tan, We have an infrastructure
> whic"Thierry Fauck at linux.vnet.ibm.com" ---2015/12/23 18:09:47---Hello
> Tan, We have an infrastructure which takes the iso and extract the kernel
> 
> From: "Thierry Fauck at linux.vnet.ibm.com" <thierry at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: centos-devel at centos.org
> Date: 2015/12/23 18:09
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS for ppc64le bare-metal install failed
> on S822L
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> 
> 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,
>> ==========================================
>> 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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>> ---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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