Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread John Naggets
Hi Chris, For completeness just wanted to mention that it is the first time I see in newer servers that it is not possible to PXE boot from the network using legacy mode (BIOS). It seems like the NICs are missing the required piece of code for that as all 4 NICs of that server fail to boot legacy

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, John Naggets said: > Jonathan brings it exactly to the point: we have to face UEFI because > legacy mode is fading out, if I enable legacy mode I can't even boot > anymore through the network (PXE) as these newer network cards can > only boot PXE with

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread John Naggets
I checked and secure boot is turned off. Jonathan brings it exactly to the point: we have to face UEFI because legacy mode is fading out, if I enable legacy mode I can't even boot anymore through the network (PXE) as these newer network cards can only boot PXE with UEFI. In the mean time I have

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:51:48PM +, Mikhail Utin wrote: > Why do you need UEFI? It does not add to security "a lot" but was > designed to block booting software like a "hypervisor". I used my > Dell notebooks to test our hypervisor identification software > (HyperCatcher if you are

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-31 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/30/2018 04:23 PM, John Naggets wrote: > Hi, > > I installed CentOS 7.4 on a modern Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server > which uses UEFI. So far so good CentOS 7.4 works fine so then I went > on to install the Xen hypervisor by following the instructions from > the wiki

Re: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-30 Thread Mikhail Utin
<hostingnugg...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 17:23 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub Hi, I installed CentOS 7.4 on a modern Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server which uses UEFI. So far so good Cent

[CentOS] Xen hypervisor on CentOS 7.4 with modern UEFI server not booting from grub

2018-01-30 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I installed CentOS 7.4 on a modern Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server which uses UEFI. So far so good CentOS 7.4 works fine so then I went on to install the Xen hypervisor by following the instructions from the wiki (https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart). Unfortunately when I