Bug 1147577

Summary:	installing osp5 rhel7 hosts fails automatically if boot disk is > 2TB
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Kambiz Aghaiepour <kambiz>
Component:	rhel-osp-installer	Assignee:	Brad P. Crochet <brad>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Alexander Chuzhoy <sasha>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	5.0 (RHEL 6)	CC:	ajeain, mburns, rhos-maint, slong, yeylon
Target Milestone:	z2	Keywords:	OtherQA, ZStream
Target Release:	Installer
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	rhel-osp-installer-0.4.2-1.el6ost	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, GUID partition table (GPT) partitions greater than 2 TB required a BIOS boot partition which was not created. This meant that installing to disks larger that 2 TB would fail. With this update, if the disk is larger than 2TB, a BIOS boot partition is created, and nodes with disks larger than 2 TB will boot correctly.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2014-11-04 17:02:54 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Kambiz Aghaiepour 2014-09-29 14:10:12 UTC

Description of problem:

If the OS boot disk on the RHEL7 hosts is larger than 2TB, the automatic installation fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Latest puddle

How reproducible:

Attempt a kickstart of RHEL7 OSP hosts using any deployment, with the OS disks configured (e.g. via perc controller to use a RAID5 device across multiple internal drives).

The workaround is to add the following to the partition scheme "OpenStack Default" :

part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1

(immediately after the "clearpart --all --initlabel")

The above workaround was gathered after reading:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032428

(see comment #9 and comment #15).  Since a custom partition is used, we need to add some logic to determine if the size of sda is > 2TB, and ensure the creation of the biosboot partition.

Comment 1 Kambiz Aghaiepour 2014-09-29 14:11:49 UTC

The comments being referenced, i.e. 9 and 15, are comments against 1032428, not this bz entry.

Comment 5 Brad P. Crochet 2014-10-07 15:32:11 UTC

PR available: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-installer-staypuft/pull/100

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2014-11-04 17:02:54 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1800.html