Bug 1113816

Summary:	RFE: support ppc64 grub2 support netboot installation
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	andrew <alemay>
Component:	lab controller	Assignee:	Amit Saha <asaha>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version:	develop	CC:	aigao, alemay, asaha, bpeck, dcallagh, ebaak, jburke, rmancy, xma
Target Milestone:	0.17.3	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description andrew 2014-06-27 02:21:48 UTC

Description of problem:

Currently newer ppc64 systems are having problems with yaboot. And tftp booting the kernel into memory.  The work around is to use grub2 which has lots of options. We need to look at making beaker support using grub2 for ppc64 systems to provision them as right now none of these systems will netboot via yaboot properly.

I will move some systems in to the devel instance for testing and will document how I have been testing it.

Comment 2 Dan Callaghan 2014-06-27 02:54:00 UTC

We have aarch64 support now (including a boot menu), it is using EFI GRUB2, so hopefully things work the same way for ppc64. We will just need to figure out a directory layout that doesn't conflict.

Comment 7 Amit Saha 2014-07-31 14:26:55 UTC

Preliminary patch: http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/3228/

Completely untested in a real setup.

Comment 19 Amit Saha 2014-08-14 04:50:30 UTC

Beaker 0.17.3 has been released (https://beaker-project.org/docs/whats-new/release-0.17.html#beaker-0-17-3)