Can you do pasu <node> show BootOrder

You could, if you'd like, change the boot order to 'Hard disk 0' with asu/pasu 
and it should work (centos 7 will work that way, centos 6 will not).

I may also like to see asu show all if you can't find hard disk at all.
From: Andrew Loftus [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 4:07 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Boot order changed after CentOS install on Lenovo 3550

Thanks for the information Jarrod!

There is no special partitioning and only one "visible" hard drive (there are 
two physical drives setup in a hardware mirror).

I'm relatively new to UEFI systems.  Perhaps if I understand it better I can 
troubleshoot it better.
Where can I learn more about the UEFI install procedure that you mentioned 
above?



On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Jarrod Johnson 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Just using the normal storage local?  No SAN attached storage or anything?

For reference, on install UEFI compatible systems look at the partition id they 
write their boot loader to.  They take the partition uuid and tell UEFI 
firmware 'hey, next time boot to this file on the partition with this UUID'.

If it for some reason selected a storage device that is *not* visible from 
UEFI, this behavior would be seen (It's looking for a UUID that doesn't exist).

Is there a custom partition plan?  Are there multiple disks?  Some versions of 
CentOS will struggle if '/boot' and '/boot/efi' get split up, for example.

From: Andrew Loftus [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 3:36 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [xcat-user] Boot order changed after CentOS install on Lenovo 3550

xCAT version: 2.11.1
OS: CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
Hardware: Lenovo X-series 3550
Install type: diskful install

Node PXE boots successfully and OS install completes successfully.  Upon 
reboot, the machine fails to boot because it can't find a valid OS.  Using 
rcons to get to machine console, we find a new boot option named 'CentOS' and 
it is first in the boot priority list.

Does anyone know where this comes from?
Why it's there?
How to fix it or prevent it from getting set in the first place?

Even a gentle shove in the right direction to troubleshoot this would be 
greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
--Andy

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