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Hi Zhi,

> And the error message is:
> InstanceDeployFailure: RPC do_node_deploy failed to validate deploy or power
> info. Error: Node d71babdd-aa91-450d-b957-dc8c633c41f2 is configured to use
> the agent_ssh driver which currently does not support deploying partition
> images.
>
> Could someone give me some advice?
>

The error says almost it all, you are using the agent_ssh driver and
it does not support deploying partition images (meaning that it will
not partition the disk for you). When using that driver you should use
a whole disk image (an image that contains the partitions and a
booloader installed on it).

If you want to use a partition image you can use the pxe_ssh driver,
it does supports both types of image.

Also, there's work being done in a project called ironic-lib[0] which
is re-factoring the code that the ironic-conductor use to partition
the disk so it can be shared with the IPA ramdisk (that will be used
by the agent_ssh driver to partition the disk in-band) as well.

[0] https://github.com/openstack/ironic-lib

Hope that helps,
Lucas