[Kolla-Ansible][Ironic] Baremetal node Cleaning fails in UEFI mode, but succeeds in Legacy Bios Mode

Anirudh Gupta anyrude10 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 09:24:28 UTC 2021


Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply.  Yes, I am using Centos 8 only.

I tried changing the settings and restarted the docker container.

The cleaning process moved a step further but it started showing the
error *"Could
not select: Exec format not supported"*

[image: image.png]

Regards
Anirudh Gupta



On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 1:52 PM Mark Goddard <mark at stackhpc.com> wrote:

> Hi Anirudh,
>
> Are you using CentOS 8? The iPXE EFI bootloader file is
> named ipxe-x86_64.efi there, so a TFTP request for ipxe.efi will fail.
>
> Could you try setting the following in ironic.conf:
>
> [pxe]
> uefi_ipxe_bootfile_name =  ipxe-x86_64.efi
>
> If this works, we should change it in kolla-ansible. Would you be able to
> propose the change via Gerrit?
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 17:18, Anirudh Gupta <anyrude10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> I am trying to provision Baremetal node using IRONIC with KOLLA-ANSIBLE.
>> I have enabled the support of "IPXE" in kolla-ansible as well.
>>
>> I am getting an issue that when my baremetal node is booted in UEFI Mode,
>> it is not able to find file *"ipxe.efi"* as a result of which cleaning
>> of the node fails
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> But when I change the BIOS Mode of my Baremetal Node to Legacy.BIOS, it
>> looks for the file "*undionly.kpxe"* for which the acknowledgment is
>> received and Data Packets are transferred. Eventually the cleaning of node
>> is also a success.
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> Is there any limitation of IRONIC or KOLLA-ANSIBLE side that provisioning
>> of Baremetal Node can only be done in Legacy Bios Mode?
>> For bare metal provisioning in UEFI mode, is there any other parameter
>> that needs to be enabled.
>>
>> Regards
>> Anirudh Gupta
>>
>>
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