[rdo-list] UEFI support Mitaka

[Dmitry Tantsur]

On 10/04/2016 12:02 PM, Charles Short wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using TripleO to deploy Stable Mitaka  on HP BL460c Gen9 blades.
>
> I set my config up for grub2 (not Elilo) UEFI  iPXE mode as per  -
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/project-install-guide/baremetal/draft/setup-drivers.html
>
> In UEFI mode I get a kernel panic on iPXE boot during introspection when I use
> the pre-built Mitaka CentOS images (
> http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/tripleo_images/mitaka/delorean/)
> If I try building my own images with the latest CentOS cloud image I have the
> same problem.
>
> If I replace the kernel with the latest kernel from ELRepo then all works fine
> and I can introspect and create a working stack.
>
> This thread sort of explains the issue -
>
> http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7813
>
> So It looks like this issue is fixed in a kernel that does not yet ship with
> CentOS.
>
> Has anyone else been struggling with this?
>
> I am probably going to revert to HP legacy BIOS mode as I don't want to run my
> stack on a non standard setup.
>
> Thanks
>
> Charles
>

Hi!

Have you tried raising it to the kernel folks? I see that we need to backport 
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=819ab9941c98f18b0f8c7ffb815e4f07186d2a5f