[Rdo-list] TripleO Liberty issues and workarounds

[Christopher Brown]

Thanks for sharing Charles.

I've had to do exactly the same thing (removing the local boot options)
with Lenovo kit.

This introduces a dependency on the undercloud to boot nodes so
hopefully this will be fixed soon!

Regards

On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 17:28 +0000, Charles Short wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I would report some issues and workarounds deploying on HP
> G6
> blades following -
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tripleo-docs/basic_deployment/bas
> ic_deployment_cli.html#
>
> My Undercloud is CentOS7 and I wanted to deploy my Overcloud with the
> same distro.
>
> So I found some images here -
>
> https://ci.centos.org/artifacts/rdo/images/liberty/delorean/stable/
>
> However introspection hung every time with timeout errors.
>
> My hunch was that the images were the issue so I tried to build my
> own.
> Using the guide above I created some images (after overcoming proxy
> issues documented previously).
> I still had introspection timeouts.
> So I thought maybe instead of using the generic CentOS cloud image
> the
> build utility provides by default I would try and specify one -
>
> export DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES="http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/"
> export BASE_IMAGE_FILE="CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1511.qcow2"
>
> This image was the same version as my Undercloud.
>
> This worked and introspection ran fine with no timeouts with the new
> images :)
>
> I then  tried to deploy a stack (Overcloud).... and the nodes ended
> up
> in grub rescue mode :(
> The initial PXE kernel deployment worked fine, but they rebooted into
> grub rescue mode.
>
> I suspected the flavor was to blame and looked at the baremetal
> properties and saw the boot options were set to 'local'. For this to
> work grub2 needs
> to be configured in the image -
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/deploy/install-guide.html#
> local-boot-with-partition-images
>
> So I tried recreating the baremetal flavor without the 'local' boot
> option capability (unsure whether grub2 was configured or not in the
> image)
>
> I redeployed and the Overcloud stack deployed successfully :)
>
> Charles
>
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> Virtualization and Cloud Team
> European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
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