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Bug 2002059

Summary:	Booting the ISO on HP ProLiant e910t often is too slow and fails to start the network
Product:	OpenShift Container Platform	Reporter:	Alexander Chuzhoy <sasha>
Component:	assisted-installer	Assignee:	Flavio Percoco <fpercoco>
assisted-installer sub component:	assisted-service	QA Contact:	Yuri Obshansky <yobshans>
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Severity:	medium
Priority:	medium	CC:	aos-bugs, eglottma, grajaiya, mcornea, wlewis
Version:	4.8
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Description Alexander Chuzhoy 2021-09-07 19:53:44 UTC

Version:
Release tag
stable
Assisted Installer UI version
quay.io/ocpmetal/ocp-metal-ui:e0442ec1f5f75ae087f6b711edeaf0272491028e
Assisted Installer UI library version
1.5.35
Assisted Installer
quay.io/ocpmetal/assisted-installer:3673218609bec42b6cf64e2d81152e2cb25ced91
Assisted Installer Controller
quay.io/ocpmetal/assisted-installer-controller:3673218609bec42b6cf64e2d81152e2cb25ced91
assistedInstallerService
quay.io/ocpmetal/assisted-service:ae1fe9b323a2ba70e32cde08bde87aa93d707897
Discovery Agent
quay.io/ocpmetal/assisted-installer-agent:60ac74ef05e45fd612222f3bd17f0b148d346d98



Generated ISO and try to boot HP ProLiant e910t with this ISO.

Result:
Often the boot process is too long and when the machine finishes booting, simply login via console takes about 30 seconds to complete and get a prompt.

The static network address isn't set in 9 out of 10 boot attempts.


When the image is being booted on Dell R640, the same issue isn't observed.

Attaching a few screenshots from the boot process.

Comment 6 Alexander Chuzhoy 2021-09-07 20:22:41 UTC

6 minutes from the moment we hit enter to boot the coreOS and until reached target "switch root".
another 10 minutes until the boot is finished and we have the login prompt.

Comment 7 Alexander Chuzhoy 2021-09-07 21:04:08 UTC

Just tried to reboot the same image on the same machine.
3 times in a row the issue reproduced and the 4th time the boot went fine and the network came up as well.

Comment 8 Alexander Chuzhoy 2021-09-23 16:23:04 UTC

Reproduces in 4.9

Comment 9 DirectedSoul 2021-09-23 17:11:24 UTC

Observing the same behavior with 4.9.

Comment 10 Flavio Percoco 2021-10-07 09:16:47 UTC

@sasha

* Do you have the manifests  / configs used for this scenario?
* Are you able to replicate this issue?
* Were you using nmstate configs?
* Did you see something that suggests this is specific to HP hardware?

I have been successfully booting images on HP machines for a different effort.

Comment 11 Flavio Percoco 2021-10-07 12:51:06 UTC

Talked to Alexander and this issue, while important, is not urgent anymore. He's got some other hardware to keep moving forward so I will change the severity now.

Comment 17 Shiftzilla 2023-03-09 01:06:50 UTC

OpenShift has moved to Jira for its defect tracking! This bug can now be found in the OCPBUGS project in Jira.

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-8972