Thanks for the reply - I don't think our issue is with PXE...node boots
fine from the PXE and it gets installed...it's just after the installation
when it's supposed to boot from the HD it does not.
Damir
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:03 AM David D. Johnson <david_john...@brown.edu>
wrote:
> Sorry, misspoke on one point — we did take out Legacy Mode from the
> BootModes.
>
> On May 12, 2017, at 9:51 AM, David D. Johnson <david_john...@brown.edu>
> wrote:
>
> When we got our first 5465 Lenovo nodes, we changed the noderes netboot
> attribute from pxe to xnba
> and also changed BootModes.SystemBootMode to “UEFI Mode”. Even though
> Legacy Only is first in
> the boot order, they still are able to pxe boot just fine. That is the
> only difference I see, maybe worth a quick
> try to see if it makes any difference in behavior. We don’t have disks in
> any of our NextScale nodes, so
> I can’t try it out in our environment.
>
> — ddj
>
>
> On May 12, 2017, at 9:01 AM, Damir Krstic <damir.krs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sure here it is:
>
> IMM.ForceBootToUefi=Disabled
> IMM.PXE_NextBootEnabled=Disabled
> IMM.SystemNextBootMode=Legacy
> IMM.DHCPBootPCClientPortControl=Open
> LegacySupport.ForceLegacyVideoonBoot=Enabled
> LegacySupport.InfiniteBootRetry=Disabled
> LegacySupport.BBSBoot=Enabled
> BackupBankManagement.NumberOfSuccessfulConsecutiveBoots=1
> DevicesandIOPorts.Com1ActiveAfterBoot=Enable
> DevicesandIOPorts.Com2ActiveAfterBoot=Disable
> BootModes.SystemBootMode=Legacy Mode
> BootModes.OptimizedBoot=Enabled
> BootModes.QuietBoot=Enabled
> BootOrder.BootOrder=Legacy Only=PXE Network=Hard Disk 0=Hard Disk 1
> BootOrder.WolBootOrder=PXE Network=CD/DVD Rom=Hard Disk 0
> SecureBootConfiguration.SecureBootis=Disabled
>
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 6:45 AM <david_john...@brown.edu> wrote:
>
>> Could you share the IMM and Boot sections from asu show on one of your
>> troublesome nodes?
>>
>> -- ddj
>> Dave Johnson
>>
>> > On May 12, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Damir Krstic <damir.krs...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > We are switching our image from stateless to stateful in a month (going
>> from RH6 to RH7). Old IBM dx360 nodes are booting fine with this new image
>> we have created. Our NextScale nodes are not...The OS gets installed and
>> the node reboots but then it never boots from the hard drive. It times out
>> at the PXE prompt and just hangs.
>> >
>> > I am wondering if some BIOS setting is doing this - maybe something
>> with legacy mode, or boot order or something else. I've tried manually
>> hitting F12 and selecting the hard drive but that did not seem to work.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have NextScales booting from the hard drive, and if so,
>> would you mind sharing (dumping) your settings via asu show?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Damir
>> >
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