Is there a way to check these things from the iLO? It is the only access I have right now. Also, When the machine was configured, we always set pxe as first boot device, so no, the OS is not set as first. The entire new cluster, all 150 or so machines, were shipped with a single hard drive, as I'm sure the machine specs will confirm. So, I'm not sure if there is a RAID controller or not, but it would be a waste with 1 hdd. Do the machine specs say there is a RAID controller?
James M. Bulger Data Center Tech Center for Research Computing 506 W. South St. South Bend, In. 46601 574-631-7252 On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:25 AM, <elie.jr...@dell.com> wrote: > Dell - Internal Use - Confidential > > Hi stijn, > According to our BIOS experts, per industry spec, the OS installer puts > the newly created OS entry at the top. Can you confirm that you installed > the OS on the disk that became the first boot device? Also are you using a > RAID controller? > Thanks, > Elie > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of S1, Vivek > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 4:29 AM > To: linux-poweredge-Lists <linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com> > Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] uefi boot order changing > > Dell - Internal Use - Confidential > > Hello stijn, > > Would it be possible to share the boot manager screen with current list > items in it for understanding more. > > Thanks > Vivek > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:52:24 +0100 > From: Stijn De Weirdt <stijn.dewei...@ugent.be> > To: linux-poweredge@dell.com > Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] uefi boot order changing > Message-ID: <4bd27fd3-7327-7c13-e61d-30868630c...@ugent.be> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > hi all, > > we see an issue with the boot order in uefi (now in idrac9 on m640, but we > also had this on our m630): it's changing for no real obvious reason, and > doing the wrong thing in the end. > > the problem is that we want to do pxe boot first, then disk boot. > > however, under certain circumstances, the order changes. in particular, > when we reinstall a node, it flips to disk-pxe. we think that it is because > the disks gets reinstalled, and uefi sees the new boot disk, and decides > that since the old boot disk is no more, it falls back to some default > order. > > however, the right thing to do would be to keep the order the same as much > as possible, in particular, the pxe boot should always be kept first. > > is anyone experiencing similar issues? or knows the correct reason why we > are seeing this? or has some tips how to fix this? > > many thanks, > > stijn > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > ------------------------------ > > End of Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 166, Issue 1 > *********************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >
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