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. > > Inactive hide details for "Thierry Fauck at linux.vnet.ibm.com" > ---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 > Sent by: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > 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. >> >> Inactive hide details for "Thierry Fauck at linux.vnet.ibm.com" >> ---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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> 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. >>>> -- Thierry Fauck @ linux.vnet.ibm