Bug 1113816 - RFE: support ppc64 grub2 support netboot installation
Summary: RFE: support ppc64 grub2 support netboot installation
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Beaker
Classification: Retired
Component: lab controller
Version: develop
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: 0.17.3
Assignee: Amit Saha
QA Contact: tools-bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-06-27 02:21 UTC by andrew
Modified: 2018-02-06 00:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-08-14 04:50:30 UTC
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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)
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