Hello, would someone be willing to provide the xCAT patch on elilo 3.16? Thank you!
John > On Aug 28, 2015, at 9:11 AM, John Keenleyside <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Jarrod for the quick reply. I'll be happy to try the patch when it > is ready. > > > ----- Original message ----- > From: Jarrod Johnson <[email protected]> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> > Cc: > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] elilo error using xCAT to install Ubuntu on SM > TwinPro with Intel x710 NICs > Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2015 8:07 AM > > Fwiw, we were unaware of this becaise even the latest broadwell Lenovo > servers work fine with the x710 nic. Best guess it is due to a particular > interesting behavior of some uefi implementations, tolerated in elilo 3.16 > but not 3.14. Now this is a guess since I only have servers that do not > exhibit the problem. Applying our elilo patch against 3.16 may help. I can > try that but someone else may beat me to it (writing from my phone..). There > is a patch we wrote to enable ipxe protocol and get some useful variable > substitutions to apply. > > Longer term plan is to use the efi stub feature of Linux to obviate need for > any second stage bootloader. For older kernels, we have a challenge. > Elilo+ipxe remains the only way currently (as far as I know) to implement > HTTPS boot, which a few users use (grub architecture isn't geared towards > using high level uefi protocols, so it elects to reinvent everything inside > it's own codebase, making ability to use ipxe network stack a challenge with > that). When the transition happens, I need to double check.), but I want to > say rhel7 and newer, Ubuntu 12.04 and newer, and sles11sp3 and newer would > work with that strategy. Of course the bios style boot would still be viable > for other editions. If it weren't for rhel6, I'd be more comfortable.... > Note in the further flung future we may not even need ipxe (uefi 2.5 provides > some interesting capabilities, but probably not going to see mainstream > adoption until 2017 > > On Aug 28, 2015 6:13 AM, John Keenleyside <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to use xCAT 2.9 to install Ubuntu 14.04.3 on a Supermicro TwinPro > server with Intel x710-DA2 NICs. The install network is 10Gbps. We had to > enable UEFI to enable boot from the x710 NICs. The kernel and initrd image > are transferred successfully from the tftpboot directory on the xCAT server. > However, an elilo error occurs immediately when the kernel is booted. Please > see the attached picture that shows the elilo error. > > Has anyone seen this type of error? Any suggestions on how to fix this would > be most appreciated. > > Also, I have observed that the elilo xCAT RPM is a few years old and that the > elilo sourceforge project has been abandoned last year. Is there anyone that > can comment on how xCAT can be used to install Linux on servers with new > motherboards and NICs ? > > Thank you, > John Keenleyside > IBM > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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